The vulgar charge that the tendency of democracies is to leveling, meaning to drag all down to the level of the lowest, is singularly untrue; its real tendency being to elevate the depressed to a condition not unworthy of their manhood.

We are all human, and all do wrong.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.

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.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.

Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of all the most effective parts of a community for a given end, hence its energy, efficiency and success.

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