It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.

A single glance at the map will make the reader acquainted with the position of the eastern coast of the island of Great Britain, as connected with the shores of the opposite continent.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.