Civilization does not engross all the virtues of humanity: she has not even her full share of them. They flourish in greater abundance and attain greater strength among many barbarous people. The hospitality of the wild Arab, the courage of the North American Indian, and the faithful friendships of some of the Polynesian nations, far surpass any thing of a similar kind among the polished communities of Europe.

One of the coolest and wisest hours a man has, is just after he awakes in the morning.

The only ugliness is that of the heart, seen through the face. And though beauty be obvious, the only loveliness is invisible.

To treat of human actions is to deal wholly with second causes.

Ignorance is the father of all fear.

Bachelors alone can travel freely, and without any twinges of their consciences touching desertion of the fire-side.

Ah! the best righteousness of our man-of-war world seems but an unrealized ideal, after all; and those maxims which, in the hope of bringing about a Millennium, we busily teach to the heathen, we Christians ourselves disregard.