I learn several great truths; as that it is impossible to see into the ways of futurity, that punishment always attends the villain, that love is the fond soother of the human breast.

Tenderness is a virtue.

With disadvantages enough to bring him to humility, a Scotsman is one of the proudest things alive.

This same philosophy is a good horse in the stable, but an arrant jade on a journey.

O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree!

[T]here are depths of thousands of miles which are hidden from our inquiry. The only tidings we have from those unfathomable regions are by means of volcanoes, those burning mountains that seem to discharge their materials from the lowest abysses of the earth.

While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.