The frontiers are not east or west, north or south; but wherever a man fronts a fact, though that fact be a neighbor, there is anunsettled wilderness between him and Canada, between him and the setting sun, or, farther still, between him and it. Let him build himself a log house with the bark on where he is, fronting IT, and wage there an Old French war for seven or seventy years, with Indians and Rangers, or whatever else may come between him and the reality, and save his scalp if he can.

It is a surprising and memorable, as well as valuable experience, to be lost in the woods any time.

There never was and is not likely soon to be a nation of philosophers, nor am I certain it is desirable that there should be.

Things don't change. We change.

It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, ina government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one's being alone.

The faultfinder will find faults even in paradise.

Genius is not a retainer to any emperor.