Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

The mode of clearing and planting is to fell the trees, and burn once what will burn, then cut them up into suitable lengths, rollinto heaps, and burn again; then, with a hoe, plant potatoes where you can come at the ground between the stumps and charred logs; for a first crop the ashes suffice for manure, and no hoeing being necessary the first year. In the fall, cut, roll, and burn again, and so on, till the land is cleared; and soon it is ready for grain, and to be laid down.

Methinks that the moment my legs began to move, my thoughts began to flow.

So near along life's stream are the fountains of innocence and youth making fertile its sandy margin; and the voyageur will do well to replenish his vessels often at these uncontaminated sources.

A man will not need to study history to find out what is best for his own culture.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.