Most men think indistinctly, and therefore cannot speak with exactness . . .

That man is never happy for the present is so true, that all his relief from unhappiness is only forgetting himself for a little while. Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.

Whisky making is the art of making poison pleasant

I know not, Madam, that you have a right, upon moral principles, to make your readers suffer so much.

Men go to sea, before they know the unhappiness of that way of life; and when they have come to know it, they cannot escape from it, because it is then too late to choose another profession; as indeed is generally the case with men, when they have once engaged in any particular way of life.

In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.