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.

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

On the human imagination, events produce the effects of time. Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much, is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents, soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.

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.

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.

The minority of a country is never known to agree, except in its efforts to reduce and oppress the majority.

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