I am grateful for what I have. My thanksgiving is perpetual.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

Surely joy is the condition of life.

The success of great scholars and thinkers is commonly a courtier-like success, not kingly, not manly. They make shift to live merely by conformity, practically as their fathers did, and are in no sense the progenitors of a nobler race of men.

The squirrel that you kill in jest, dies in earnest.

It is impossible to say all that we think, even to our truest Friend. We may bid him farewell forever sooner than complain, for our complaint is too well grounded to be uttered.

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.