No degree of knowledge attainable by man is able to set him above the want of hourly assistance.

Admiration and love are like being intoxicated with champagne; judgment and friendship are like being enlivened.

Allow children to be happy in their own way, for what better way will they find?

Gratitude is a species of justice.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity; the next is, to strive, and deserve to conquer: but he whose life has passed without a contest, and who can boast neither success nor merit, can survey himself only as a useless filler of existence; ad if he is content with his own character, must owe his satisfaction to insensibility.

We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for it is not to be imagined without experience, how in climbing crags and treading bogs, and winding through narrow and obstructed passages, a little bulk will hinder, and a little weight will burden; or how often a man that has pleased himself at home with his own resolution, will, in the hour of darkness and fatigue, be content to leave behind him everything but himself.