No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.

I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!