To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

Tell that to the marines - the sailors won't believe it.

What is a diary as a rule? A document useful to the person who keeps it. Dull to the contemporary who reads it and invaluable to the student, centuries afterwards, who treasures it.

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

A sinful heart makes feeble hand.