We Can All Perceive The

Superstition Is A Quality That Seems Indigenous To The Ocean.

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.

It Is A Besetting Vice Of Democracies To Substitute Public Opinion For Law. This Is The Usual Form In Which Masses Of Men Exhibit Their Tyranny.

There Is A Destiny In War, To Which A Brave Man Knows How To Submit With The Same Courage That He Faces His Foes.

The Tendency Of Democracies Is, In All Things, To Mediocrity, Since The Tastes, Knowledge, And Principles Of The Majority Form The Tribunal Of Appeal.