Wretched un-idea'd girls.

Where secrecy or mystery begins, vice or roguery is not far off.

In traveling, a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

Good-humor is a state between gayety and unconcern,--the act or emanation of a mind at leisure to regard the gratification of another.

None are happy but by anticipation of change.

No man will be a sailor who has contrivance enough to get himself into a jail; for being in a ship is being in a jail, with the chance of being drowned... a man in a jail has more room, better food, and commonly better company.

The good of our present state is merely comparative, and the evil which every man feels will be sufficient to disturb and harass him if he does not know how much he escapes.