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.

History, like love, is so apt to surround her heroes with an atmosphere of imaginary brightness.

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

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

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?

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.

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.