How feeble is all language to describe the horrors we inflict upon these wretches, whom we mason up in the cells of our prisons, and condemn to perpe….

But the might-have-been is but boggy ground to build upon..

Consider the subtleness of the sea; how its most dreaded creatures glide under water, unapparent for the most part, and treacherously hidden beneath ….

An intense copper calm, like a universal yellow lotus, was more and more unfolding its noiseless measureless leaves upon the sea..

The Anglo-Saxon hive have extirpated Paganism from the greater part of the North American continent; but with it they have likewise extirpated the gr….

Ladies are like creeds; if you cannot speak well of them, say nothing..

No mercy, no power but its own controls it. Panting and snorting like a mad battle steed that has lost its rider, the masterless ocean overruns the g….

The lightning flashes through my skull; mine eyeballs ache and ache; my whole beaten brain seems as beheaded, and rolling on some stunning ground..

Standing navies, as well as standing armies, serve to keep alive the spirit of war even in the meek heart of peace. In its very embers and smoulderin….

Seat thyself sultanically among the moons of Saturn, and take high abstracted man alone; and he seems a wonder, a grandeur, and a woe. But from that ….

Though amid all the smoking horror and diabolism of a sea-fight, sharks will be seen longingly gazing up to the ship's decks, like hungry dogs round ….

The eyes are the gateway to the soul..

In time of peril, like the needle to the loadstone, obedience, irrespective of rank, generally flies to him who is best fitted to command..

Let us pray that the great historic tragedy of our time may not have been enacted without instructing our whole beloved country through terror and pi….

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open..

Let America add Mexico to Texas, and pile Cuba upon Canada; let the English overswarm all India, and hang out their blazing banner from the sun; two ….

Poor fish of Rodondo! in your victimized confidence, you are of the number of those who inconsiderately trust, while they do not understand, human na….

The shadows of things are greater than themselves; and the more exaggerated the shadow, the more unlike the substance..

There is no figure more common in scripture, and none more beautiful, than that by which Christ is likened unto light. Incomprehensible in its nature….

Amity itself can only be maintained by reciprocal respect, and true friends are punctilious equals..

A good laugh is a mighty good thing, and rather too scarce a good thing; the more's the pity. So, if any one man, in his own proper person, afford st….