In a multitude of acquaintances is less security, than in one faithful friend.

They talk of the dignity of work. The dignity is in leisure.

There never was a great man yet who spent all his life inland.

Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed, well- warmed, and well-fed.

Cannibalism to a certain moderate extent is practised among several of the primitive tribes in the Pacific, but it is upon the bodies of slain enemies alone; and horrible and fearful as the custom is, immeasurably as it is to be abhorred and condemned, still I assert that those who indulge in it are in other respects humane and virtuous.

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

Faith and philosophy are air, but events are brass.