Nature has no human inhabitant who appreciates her.

Nothing can rightly compel a simple and brave man to a vulgar sadness.

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.

The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.

Nature, even when she is scant and thin outwardly, satisfies us still by the assurance of a certain generosity at the roots.

This fond reiteration of the oldest expressions of truth by the latest posterity, content with slightly and religiously retouchingthe old material, is the most impressive proof of a common humanity.

Love is no individual's experience; and though we are imperfect mediums, it does not partake of our imperfection; though we are finite, it is infinite and eternal.