Think of it. To go down to posterity as a 'man who lived among the cannibals.'

Personal prudence, even when dictated by quite other than selfish considerations, surely is no special virtue in a military man; while an excessive love of glory, impassioning a less burning impulse, the honest sense of duty, is the first.

All the world over, the picturesque yields to the pocketesque.

A thing may be incredible and still be true; sometimes it is incredible because it is true.

You cannot hide the soul.

Soldier or sailor, the fighting man is but a fiend; and the staff and body-guard of the Devil musters many a baton.

If you begin the day with a laugh, you may, nevertheless, end it with a sob and a sigh.