Nature refuses to sympathize with our sorrow. She seems not to have provided for, but by a thousand contrivances against it.

There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.

When the State wishes to endow an academy or university, it grants it a tract of forest land: one saw represents an academy, a gang, a university.

Is a democracy, such as we know it, the last improvement possible in government? Is it not possible to take a step further towardsrecognizing and organizing the rights of man?

Let your life be a counter friction to stop the machine.

It is not worth the while to let our imperfections disturb us always.

Ktaadnis an Indian word signifying highest land,... very few, even among backwoodsmen and hunters, have ever climbed it, andit will be a long time before the tide of fashionable travel sets that way.