All we discover has been with us since the sun began to roll; and much we discover, is not worth the discovering..

A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War--Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the….

Real strength never impairs beauty or harmony, but it often bestows it, and in everything imposingly beautiful, strength has much to do with the magi….

When among wild beasts, if they menace you, be a wild beast..

The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul..

Let us be Christians toward our fellow-whites, as well as philanthropists toward the blacks our fellow-men. In all things, and toward all, we are enj….

Those peculiar social sensibilities nourished by our own peculiar political principles, while they enhance the true dignity of a prosperous American,….

One trembles to think of that mysterious thing in the soul, which seems to acknowledge no human jurisdiction, but in spite of the individual's own in….

That hour in the life of a man when first the help of humanity fails him, and he learns that in his obscurity and indigence humanity holds him a dog ….

But are sailors, frequenters of fiddlers' greens, without vices? No; but less often than with landsmen do their vices, so called, partake of crookedn….

Great towers take time to construct..

It is the horrible texture of a fabric that should be woven of ships' cables and hawsers. A Polar wind blows through it, and birds of prey hover over….

Nature is nobody's ally..

Is Ahab, Ahab? Is it I, God, or who, that lifts this arm? But if the great sun move not of himself; but is an errand-boy in heaven; nor one single st….

There is nothing namable but that some men will, or undertake to, do it for pay..

Art is the objectification of feeling..

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, - for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it - not in a set way….

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cy….

To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme..

A true military officer is in one particular like a true monk. Not with more self-abnegation will the latter keep his vows of monastic obedience than….

The Navy is the asylum for the perverse, the home of the unfortunate. Here the sons of adversity meet the children of calamity, and here the children….