It's wisest always to be so clad that our friends need not ask us for our names.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

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

If the newspapers are useful in overthrowing tyrants, it is only to establish a tyranny of their own.

The novice in the military art flew from point to point, retarding his own preparations by the excess of his violent and somewhat distempered zeal; while the more practiced veteran made his arrangements with a deliberation that scorned every appearance of haste

Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?

A monarchy is the most expensive of all forms of government, the regal state requiring a costly parade, and he who depends on his own power to rule, must strengthen that power by bribing the active and enterprising whom he cannot intimidate.