Ny Quotes

At which time came to us many boats and we suffered them to come aboard, being not able to resist them, which people did us no harm, neither of us understanding the one the other.

Not only I lost what I had in the ship, but from the captain and the company generally what was good or worth the taking was carried away; all which was done unknown to the emperor.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.