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.

Nature spontaneously keeps us well. Do not resist her!

I never was so rapid in my virtue but my vice kept up with me.

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency.

Time & Co. are, after all, the only quite honest and trustworthy publishers that we know.

In a pleasant spring morning all men's sins are forgiven.

Events, circumstances, etc., have their origin in ourselves. They spring from seeds which we have sown.