To be right is more honorable than to be law abiding.

Follow your genius closely enough, and it will not fail to show you a fresh prospect every hour.

While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato them,... Champlain, the first Governor of Canada,... had already gone to war against the Iroquois in their forest forts, and penetrated to the Great Lakes and wintered there, before a Pilgrim had heard of New England.

The world laughs in flowers.

What a glorious time they must have in that wilderness, far from mankind and election day!

You can hardly convince a man of error in a life-time, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grand-children may be. The geologists tell us that it took one hundred years to prove that fossils are organic, and one hundred and fifty more, to prove that they are not to be referred to the Noachian deluge.

I found that they knew but little of the history of their race, and could be entertained by stories about their ancestors as readily as any way .