New York has her wilderness within her own borders; and though the sailors of Europe are familiar with the soundings of her Hudson, and Fulton long since invented the steamboat on its waters, an Indian is still necessary to guide her scientific men to its headwaters in the Adirondack country.

What is called genius is the abundance of life and health.

Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.

I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

I have found all things thus far, persons and inanimate matter, elements and seasons, strangely adapted to my resources.