Richard Henry Dana, Jr. Quotes
The Californians are an idle, thriftless people, and can make nothing for themselves. The country abounds in grapes, yet they buy, at a great price, bad wine made in Boston.
Thou little bird, thou dweller by the sea, Why takest thou its melancholy voice, And with that boding cry Along the waves dost thou fly? Oh! rather, bird, with me Through this fair land rejoice!
As has often been said, a ship is like a lady's watch, always out of repair.
It is always observable that the physical and the exact sciences are the last to suffer under despotisms.
Sin hath broke the world's sweet peace--unstrung Th' harmonious chords to which the angels sung.
Let him then have powers commensurate with his utmost possible need, only let him be held strictly responsible for the exercise of them. Any other course would be injustice as well as bad policy