[78]: He that opposes his own judgment against the current of the times ought to be backed with unanswerable truth, and he that has truth on his side is a fool as well as a coward, if he is afraid to own it, because of the multitude of other men's opinions. 'Tis hard for a man to say, all the world is mistaken, but himself. But if it be so, who can help it?
[79]: Voyez ses poëmes si plats, entre autres «Jure Divino, a poem in twelve books, in defence of every man's birthright by nature.»
[80]: The story is told.... to the instruction of others by this example, and to justify and honour the wisdom of Providence. The Editor believes the thing to be a just history of facts; neither is there any appearance of fiction in it.
[81]: Comparer au Cas de M. Waldemar, par Edgar Poe. L'Américain est un artiste malade, et de Foe un bourgeois sensé.
[82]: I had the biggest magazine of all kinds now that ever was laid up, I believe, for one man. But I was not satisfied still; for while the ship sat upright in this posture, I thought I ought to get every thing out of her that I could.... I got most of the pieces of the cable ashore, and some of the iron, though with infinite labour; for I was fain to dip for it into the water, a work which fatigued me very much.... I verily believe, had the calm weather held, I should have brought away the whole ship, piece by piece.
[83]: A very tedious and laborious work. But what need I have to be concerned at the tediousness of any thing I had to do, since I had time enough to do it?... My time or labour was little worth, and so it was as well employed one way as another.
[84]: I bore with this.... I went through that by dint of hard labour.... Many weary stroke it had cost.... This will testify that I was not idle.... As I had learned not to despair of any thing. I never grudged my labour.
[85]: By stating and squaring every thing by reason, and by making the most rational judgment of things, every man may be in time master of every mechanic art. I had never handled a tool in my life, and yet in time, by labour, application, and contrivance, I found at last that I wanted nothing but I could have made it, especially if I had had tools.
[86]: I had every thing so ready to my hand, that it was a great pleasure for me to see all my goods in such order, and especially to find my stock of necessaries so great.
[87]: I considered that the Devil might have found out abundance of other ways to have terrified me.... that, as I lived quite on the other side of the island, he would never have been so simple to leave a mark in a place where it was ten thousand to one whether I should ever see it or not, and in the sand too, which the first surge of the sea upon a high wind would have defaced entirely. All this seemed inconsistent with the thing itself, and with all notions we usually entertain of the subtlety of the Devil.