Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

As for me, I am tormented with an everlasting itch for things remote. I love to sail forbidden seas, and land on barbarous coasts.

Man is a money-making animal, which propensity too often interferes with his benevolence.

There is no quality in this world that is not what it is merely by contrast. Nothing exists in itself.

Youth is the time when hearts are large.

Art is the objectification of feeling.

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast.

Better to sleep with a sober cannibal than a drunken Christian.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

The poor man wants many things; the covetous man, all.

You know nothing till you know all; which is the reason we never know any thing.

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Truth uncompromisingly told will always have its ragged edges.

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

The sweetest joys of life grow in the very jaws of its perils.

Time is made up of various ages; and each thinks its own a novelty.

We cannot live only for ourselves. A thousand fibers connect us with our fellow men.

Principally, and first of all, I resign my soul to the Almighty Being who gave it, and my body I commit to the dust, relying on the merits of Jesus Christ for the pardon of my sins.

The name of the Lord (says the Scripture) is a strong tower; thither the righteous flee and are safe (Proverbs 18:10). Let us secure His favor and He will lead us through the journey of this life and at length receive us to a better.