Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing.

Climate of Egypt in winter is the reign of spring upon earth, & summer in the air, and tranquility in the heat.

At banquets surfeit not, but fill; partake, and retire; and eat not again till you crave.

If not against us, nature is not for us.

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.

There's something ever egotistical in mountain-tops and towers, and all other grand and lofty things.

Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.