I am sorry to say we whites have a sad reputation among many of the Polynesians. The natives of these islands are naturally of a kindly and hospitable temper, but there has been implanted among them an almost instinctive hate of the white man. They esteem us, with rare exceptions, such as some of the missionaries, the most barbarous, treacherous, irreligious, and devilish creatures on the earth.

The only true infidelity is for a live man to vote himself dead.

As a man-of-war that sails through the sea, so this earth that sails through the air. We mortals are all on board a fast-sailing,never-sinking world-frigate, of which God was the shipwright; and she is but one craft in a Milky-Way fleet, of which God is the Lord High Admiral.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

Aid my disillusionment, my friend!

At length I fell asleep, with the volume in my hand; and never slept so sound before

Niggards are oftentimes neat.