There is a strength of a quiet endurance as significant of courage as the most daring feats of prowess

Travel gives a character of experience to our knowledge, and brings the figures on the tablet of memory into strong relief

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

The soul, by an instinct stronger than reason, ever associates beauty with truth.