I can safely say, that the happiest part of my life has been spent on board a ship.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

Nobody minds having what is too good for them.

My Emma, does not every thing serve to prove more and more the beauty of truth and sincerity in all our dealings with each other?

There is a stubbornness about me that never can bear to be frightened at the will of others. My courage always rises at every attempt to intimidate me.

That is what I like; that is what a young man ought to be. Whatever be his pursuits, his eagerness in them should know no moderation, and leave him no sense of fatigue.

Nobody, who has not been in the interior of a family, can say what the difficulties of any individual of that family may be.