quotes by Richard Henry Dana Jr.

""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..." "
— Richard Henry Dana Jr.

"He who dares to teach must never cease to learn."
— Richard Henry Dana Jr.

""There is something in the clear blue warm sea of the tropics, which gives to the stranger a feeling of unreality.""
— Richard Henry Dana Jr.

"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"
— Richard Henry Dana Jr. (Two Years before the Mast: A Sailor's Life at Sea)