I was determined to know beans.

In respect to religion and the healing art, all nations are still in a state of barbarism. In the most civilized countries the priest is still but a Powwow, and the physician a Great Medicine.

Truly the stars were given for a consolation to man.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

So soon did we, wayfarers, begin to learn that man's life is rounded with the same few facts, the same simple relations everywhere, and it is vain to travel to find it new.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.