So long as a man-of-war exists, it must ever remain a picture of much that is tyrannical and repelling in human nature.

I will live and die by this testimony: that I loved a good conscience; that I never invaded another man's liberty; and that I preserved my own.

The earliest instinct of the child, and the ripest experience of age, unite in affirming simplicity to be the truest and profoundest part for man. Likewise this simplicity is so universal and all-containing as a rule for human life, that the subtlest bad man, and the purest good man, as well as the profoundest wise man, do all alike present it on that side which they socially turn to the inquisitive and unscrupulous world.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

We die of too much life.

The Past is the textbook of tyrants; the Future is the Bible of the Free.

The terrors of truth and dart of death To faith alike are vain.