Charity, like poetry, should be cultivated, if only for its being graceful.

We are off! The courses and topsails are set: the coral-hung anchor swings from the bow: and together, the three royals are given to the breeze, that follows us out to sea like the baying of a hound.

The easiest way of life is the best.

There is nothing so slipperily alluring as sadness; we become sad in the first place by having nothing stirring to do; we continue in it, because we have found a snug sofa at last.

Where is there such an one who has not a thousand times been struck with a sort of infidel idea, that whatever other worlds God may be Lord of, he is not the Lord of this; for else this world would seem to give the lie to Him; so utterly repugnant seem its ways to the instinctively known ways of Heaven.

I have written a wicked book, and feel spotless as the lamb.

So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.