It is worth the while to detect new faculties in man,--he is so much the more divine; and anything that fairly excites our admiration expands us. The Indian, who can find his way so wonderfully in the woods, possesses an intelligence which the white man does not,--and it increases my own capacity, as well as faith, to observe it. I rejoice to find that intelligence flows in other channels than I knew. It redeems for me portions of what seemed brutish before.

Give me the old familiar world, post-office and all, with this ever new self, with this infinite expectation and faith, which does not know when it is beaten.

I am not afraid of praise, for I have practiced it on myself.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

I would not have any one adopt my mode of living on any account.

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times.

As for Doing-good, that is one of the professions which are full.