The soul knows no persons.

Next to the originator of a good sentence is the first quoter of it.

Nothing can work damage to me except myself; the harm that I sustain I carry about with me and never am a real sufferer except by my own fault.

[A]s if life were a thunder-storm wherein you can see by a flash the horizon, and then cannot see your hand.

It is very odd that Nature should be so unscrupulous. She is no saint . . .

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.

It is handsomer to remain in the establishment better than the establishment, and conduct that in the best manner, than to make asally against evil by some single improvement, without supporting it by a total regeneration.