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

A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

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.

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

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

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.