Mr Correa ... is perhaps the most learned man in the world. not merely in books, but in men & things. and a more amiable & interesting one I have never seen.

I rejoice with you in the downfall of Bonaparte. this scourge of the world has occasioned the deaths of at least ten millions of human beings, and for what? that he may be called a conqueror, a Robin Hood of the big breed, and end at...

one of the misfortunes of living too long is the loss of all one’s early friends and affections. when I review the ground over which I have passed since my youth, I see it strewed like a field of battle with the bodies of deceased friends. I stand like a solitary tree in a field, it’s trunk...

experience of every loss which can rend the human heart has taught me that time and occupation are the only medicines for grief.