In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.

A regular council was held with the Indians, who had come in on their ponies, and speeches were made on both sides through an interpreter, quite in the described mode,--the Indians, as usual, having the advantage in point of truth and earnestness, and therefore of eloquence. The most prominent chief was named Little Crow. They were quite dissatisfied with the white man's treatment of them, and probably have reason to be so.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Friends are made for caring and sharing. Friends do not live in harmony merely, as some say, but in melody.

I felt a positive yearning toward one bush this afternoon. There was a match found for me at last. I fell in love with a shrub oak.

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

There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.