All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.

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

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

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

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.