The only obligation which I have a right to assume is to do at any time what I think right.

The truth is, there is money buried everywhere, and you have only to go to work to find it.

How can you expect the birds to sing when their groves are cut down?

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wild and unfathomable always.

The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.

We believe that the possibility of the future far exceeds the accomplishment of the past. We review the past with the common sense, but we anticipate the future with transcendental senses. In our sanest moments we find ourselves naturally expecting or prepared for far greater changes than any which we have experienced within the period of distinct memory, only to be paralleled by experiences which are forgotten.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.