There are evils worse than death.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

These families, you know, are our upper crust, not upper ten thousand.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

We live in a world of transgressions and selfishness, and no pictures that represent us otherwise can be true; though happily for human nature, gleamings of that pure spirit in whose likeness man has been fashioned, are to be seen, relieving its deformities, and mitigating, if not excusing its crimes.