In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

The great God absolute! The centre and circumference of all democracy! His omnipresence, our divine equality!

The dinner-hour is the summer of the day: full of sunshine, I grant; but not like the mellow autumn of supper.

Aye, aye! and I'll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition's flames before I give him up.

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.

Not one man in five cycles, who is wise, will expect appreciative recognition from his fellows, or any one of them.

Until we understand that our grief outweighs a thousand joys, we will never understand what Christianity is all about.