All greatness of character is dependent on individuality. The man who has no other existence than that which he partakes in common with all around him, will never have any other than an existence of mediocrity.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods, There is a rapture on the lonely shore.

The very existence of government at all, infers inequality. The citizen who is preferred to office becomes the superior of those who are not, so long he is the repository of power.

I do not pretend that all that white men do is properly Christianized.

Whatever may be the changes produced by man, the eternal round of the seasons is unbroken.

Chingachgook grasped the hand that, in the warmth of feeling, the scout had stretched across the fresh earth, and in that attitude of friendship these intrepid woodsmen bowed their heads together, while scalding tears fell to their feet, watering the grave of Uncas like drops of falling rain.

Death is appalling to those of the most iron nerves, when it comes quietly and in the stillness and solitude of night.