Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?

The three-o'-clock in the morning courage, which Bonaparte thought was the rarest.

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.

After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

Treat your friends for what you know them to be. Regard no surfaces. Consider not what they did, but what they intended.

What would human life be without forests, those natural cities?