Yet I experienced sometimes that the most sweet and tender, the most innocent and encouraging society may be found in any naturalobject, even for the poor misanthrope and most melancholy man. There can be no very black melancholy to him who lives in the midst of nature and has his senses still.

One revelation has been made to the Indian, another to the white man.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.

Books must be read as deliberately and reservedly as they were written.

You don't know your testament when you see it.

I want nothing new, if I can have but a tithe of the old secured to me. I will spurn all wealth beside. Think of the consummate folly of attempting to go away from here! When the constant endeavor should be to get nearer and nearer here!