There is something in us, somehow, that, in the most degraded condition, we snatch at a chance to deceive ourselves into a fanciedsuperiority to others, whom we suppose lower in the scale than ourselves.

The worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers cannot remove them, even if they would.

Youth is immortal; Tis the elderly only grow old!

As with ships, so with men; he who turns his back to his foe gives him an advantage.

It is plain and demonstrable, that much ale is not good for Yankee, and operates differently upon them from what it does upon a Briton; ale must be drank in a fog and a drizzle.

Stay true to the dreams of thy youth.

Let me look into a human eye; it is better than to gaze into sea or sky; better than to gaze upon God.