Nature is goodness crystallized.

The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.

If to chaffer and higgle are bad in trade, they are much worse in Love. It demands directness as of an arrow.

We are accustomed to say, that the mass of men are unprepared; but improvement is slow, because the few are not materially wiser or better than the many.

I think that the farmer displaces the Indian even because he redeems the meadow, and so makes himself stronger and in some respects more natural.

I have made a short excursion into the new world which the Indian dwells in, or is. He begins where we leave off.

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