Nothing can lift the heart of man like manhood in a fellow man.

If you can get nothing better out of the world, get a good dinner out of it, at least.

beauty is like piety--you cannot run and read it; tranquility and constancy, with, now-a-days, an easy chair, are needed.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

No town-bred dandy will compare with a country-bred one- I mean a downright bumpkin dandy- a fellow that, in the dog-days of summer, will mow his two acres in buckskin gloves for fear of tanning his hands.

When a companion's heart of itself overflows, the best one can do is to do nothing.

The man's (a heathen south sea islander) a human being, just as I am; he has just as much reason to fear me, as I have to be afraid of him. Better sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.