The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

It [is of] some advantage to live a primitive and frontier life, though in the midst of an outward civilization, if only to learn what are the gross necessities of life.

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

If I thought that I could speak with discrimination and impartiality of the nations of Christendom, I should praise them, but it tasks me too much. They seem to be the most civil and humane, but I may be mistaken.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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