We were not sent into this world to do anything into which we cannot put our hearts.
Ship of the line is the most honourable thing that man, as a gregarious animal, has ever produced.
Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.
It is his restraint that is honorable to a person, not their liberty.
You should read books like you take medicine, by advice, and not by advertisement.
The constant duty of every man to his fellows is to ascertain his own powers and special gifts, and to strengthen them for the help of others.