We hate the kindness which we understand.

I found in myself, and still find, an instinct toward a higher, or, as it is named, spiritual life, as do most men, and another toward a primitive rank and savage one, and I reverence them both. I love the wild not less than the good.

However mean your life is, meet it and live it.

It would be better if there were but one inhabitant to a square mile, as where I live.

A tanned skin is something more than respectable, and perhaps olive is a fitter color than white for a man,--a denizen of the woods. "The pale white man!" I do not wonder that the African pitied him.

A simple and independent mind does not toil at the bidding of any prince.

I make myself rich by making my wants few.