The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most. The power which the sea requires in the sailor makes a man of him very fast, and the change of shores and population clears his head of much nonsense of his wigwam.

I am a part and parcel of God.

Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

There is no doctrine of the Reason which will bear to be taught by the Understanding.

For each new morning with its light, For rest and shelter of the night, For health and food, for love and friends, For everything Thy goodness sends.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.