All men want, not something to do with, but something to do, or rather something to be.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

Nothing but great antiquity can make graveyards interesting to me. I have no friends there.

It is childish to rest in the discovery of mere coincidences, or of partial and extraneous laws.

I hear many condemn these men because they were so few. When were the good and the brave ever in a majority? Would you have had him wait till that time came?--till you and I came over to him?

If we were always, indeed, getting our living, and regulating our lives according to the last and best mode we had learned, we should never be troubled with ennui.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.