I am no great admirator of your old morals, as you call them, for I have ever found, and I have liv'd long as it were in the very heart of natur', that your old morals are none of the best.

Mankind twist and turn the rules of the Lord, to suit their own wickedness, when their devilish cunning has had too much time to trifle with His commands." "Nay, venerable hunter, still am I not comprehended.

By morals I do not mean the limited and literal signification of the term, such as is conveyed in its synonyme, morality, but the practices of men, as connected with their daily intercourse, their institutions, and their laws." "And such I call barefaced and downright wantonness and waste," interrupted his sturdy disputant.
"Well, be it so," returned the Doctor, abandoning the explanation in despair.

"Perhaps I have conceded too much," he then instantly added, fancying that he still saw the glimmerings of an argument through another chink in the discourse.

"Perhaps I have conceded too much, in saying that this hemisphere is literally as old in its formation, as that which embraces the venerable quarters of Europe, Asia, and Africa." "It is easy to say a pine is not so tall as an alder, but it would be hard to prove.