There is a destiny in war, to which a brave man knows how to submit with the same courage that he faces his foes.

It is a governing principle of nature, that the agency which can produce most good, when perverted from its proper aim, is most productive of evil.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

They who have reasoned ignorantly, or who have aimed at effecting their personal ends by flattering the popular feeling, have boldly affirmed that 'one man is as good as another'; a maxim that is true in neither nature, revealed morals, nor political theory.

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.