I would uphold the law if for no other reason but to protect myself.

A little wanton money, which burned out the bottom of his purse.

An absolutely new idea is one of the rarest things known to man.

The channel is known only to the natives; so that if any stranger should enter into the bay without one of their pilots he would run great danger of shipwreck.

And, indeed, though they differ concerning other things, yet all agree in this: that they think there is one Supreme Being that made and governs the world, whom they call, in the language of their country, Mithras.