The greatness of action includes immoral as well as moral greatness--Cortes and Napoleon, as well as Luther and Washington.
Edwin Percy WhippleWe all originally came from the woods! it is hard to eradicate from any of us the old taste for the tattoo and the war-paint; and the moment that money gets into our pockets, it somehow or another breaks out in ornaments on our person, without always giving refinement to our manners.
Edwin Percy Whipple