All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

Much was said and written, at the time, concerning the policy of adding the vast regions of Louisiana, to the already immense, and but half-tenanted territories of the United-States.

Everybody says it, and what everybody says must be true.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

At no period of the naval history of the world, is it probable that Marines were more important than during the War of the Revolution.