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

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.

The disposition of all power is to abuses, nor does it at all mend the matter that its possessors are a majority.

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

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.

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

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.