A life of action and danger moderates the dread of death.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

I hate to be near the sea, and to hear it roaring and raging like a wild beast in its den. It puts me in mind of the everlasting efforts of the human mind, struggling to be free, and ending just where it began.

Without the aid of prejudice and custom, I should not be able to find my way across the room.

We imagine that the admiration of the works of celebrated men has become common, because the admiration of their names has become so.

Success in business is seldom owing to uncommon talents or original power which is untractable and self-willed, but to the greatest degree of commonplace capacity.

Who likes not his business, his business likes not him.