But to have a friend, and to be true under any and all trials, is the mark of a man!

In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees.

If a child is inclined to be grasping, or to cling to any of his or her little possessions, legends are related about the contempt and disgrace falling upon the ungenerous and mean person.

Nearness to nature... keeps the spirit sensitive to impressions not commonly felt and in touch with the unseen powers.

Friendship is held to be the severest test of character.

Is there not something worthy of perpetuation in our Indian spirit of democracy, where Earth, our mother, was free to all, and no one sought to impoverish or enslave his neighbor?

The Indian was a religious man from his mother's womb.