Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest storms

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

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.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

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