💬 Quotes

"A man who is ready to give his life for his country and his faith has already conquered the fear of death."

"It is better to fall fighting bravely in defense of our homes than to live as slaves to the heathen."

"Strategy and forethought will ever prevail against mere brute force and numbers, even when the odds seem overwhelmingly against us."

"The sea is our natural defense, but if we would rule it or keep it free, we must learn to meet the rovers upon their own element."

"True courage is not the blind rashness of the untried warrior, but the steady resolution of one who sees the danger clearly and yet goes forward."

"Even in the darkest hour, when crowns are lost and kingdoms overrun, a steadfast heart and a righteous cause will find a way to salvation."

"My usual strolls happen to be conducted at a time when London is to be seen, not in the broad glare of day, but in the long and chilly shadows of the night."

"A man's life being the round of a cage-bird, he turns the wheel of his own necessary operations—loses his power for a time—and then goes on again."

"Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of causes and effects, which makes any one night of every year a night of horror and distress to so many of us."

"It is a most extraordinary thing that people who are bent upon possessions, real or imaginary, always leave a dark footprint of some sort or other on the human scene."

"Any man may be in direct communication with any kind of human nature, and how low soever the common sort of men go, there is a kind of humanity left in them that is akin to all."

"As great a crowd of thoughts and experiences as can be crowded into one night, will sometimes be born away from the wakeful brain."

"There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances only are needed for its call into activity."

"Nobody cares now for his grave, turf, or stone, though were he to rise among them, two hundred years ago, he would be cast out of the synagogue and hurled down the precipice."

"He had discovered a secret art—the art of bringing up the shadows of the past, and making them present to the imagination."

"Happy are they who have no dead hearts, and live to love something that they can lose."

"Language—human language—after all, is but little better than the hieroglyphics on an Egyptian mummy, or the inscriptions upon decayed tombstones, not decipherable without a key."

"A man's heart may be a fortress, and yet have its breaches; a man's life may be a continuous stream, yet have its eddies of stagnant thought."

"A ship is like a human body in this respect, that to preserve its health, every part must be kept in order, and no part can suffer without the whole body feeling it."

"A man's life in Boston is one thing, and in the forecastle of a merchant brig is another; yet after a few months, one gets so used to a hard life that it seems strange there ever was any other."