All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

You can not fail in any laudable object, unless you allow your mind to be improperly directed.

I shall always think of myself first and foremost... as a hunter.

I think that if anything can be proved by natural theology, it is that slavery is morally wrong. God gave man a mouth to receive bread, hands to feed it, and his hand has a right to carry bread to his mouth without controversy.

Do you think we choose the times into which we are born? Or do we fit the times we are born into?

The power of hope upon human exertion, and happiness, is wonderful.

Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay.