In thoughts of the visions of the night, I saw long rows of angels in paradise, each with his hands in a jar of spermaceti.

God is liberal of color; so should man be.

Fame is an accident; merit a thing absolute.

Of the quaking recruit, three pitched battles make a grim grenadier; and he who shrank from the muzzle of a cannon, is now ready to yield his mustache for a sponge.

I do not think I have any uncharitable prejudice against the rattlesnake, still, I should not like to be one.

There are doubts, sir, which, if man have them, it is not man that can solve them.

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children of calamity meet the offspring of sin.