I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

The virtue which we appreciate, we to some extent appropriate.

The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

The higher the mountain on which you stand, the less change in the prospect from year to year, from age to age. Above a certain height there is no change.

Most men, even in this comparatively free country, through mere ignorance and mistake, are so occupied with the factitious cares and superfluously coarse labors of life that its finer fruits cannot be plucked by them.

Do not lose hold of your dreams or aspirations. For if you do, you may still exist but you have ceased to live.