"It was a melancholy day for human nature when that stupid Lord Anson, after beating about for three years, found himself again at Greenwich. The circumnavigation of our globe was accomplished, but the…"

"He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet."

"There is no more potent antidote to the poison of an evil imagination than the free and healthy play of the mind upon the works of nature."

"Two nations; between whom there is no intercourse and no sympathy; who are as ignorant of each other's habits, thoughts, and feelings, as if they were dwellers in different zones, or inhabitants of di…"

"an extraordinary mixture of envy, vindictiveness, hypocrisy and superstition."