[It is possible] that the race of red men ... will, before many generations, be remembered only as a strange, weird, dream-like specter, which has passed once before the eyes of men, but had departed forever.

It is not right or manly to lie even about Satan.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

They grow stiff in the joints. They get in a rut. They go to seed.

If wrinkles must be written on our brows, let them not be written upon the heart. The spirit should never grow old.

Swift defined observation to be an old man's memory.

I have had many troubles in my life, but the worst of them never came.