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.

Top-heavy was the ship as a dinnerless student with all Aristotle in his head.

The western spirit is, or will yet be (for no other is, or can be) the true American one.

A man can be honest in any sort of skin.

And what is it, thought I, after all! It’s only his outside; a man can be honest in any sort of skin.

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

The reason the mass of men fear God, and at bottom dislike Him, is because they rather distrust His heart, and fancy Him all brain like a watch. (You perceive I employ a capital initial in the pronoun referring to the Deity; don't you think there is a slight dash of flunkeyism in that usage?).