What will the axemen do, when they have cut their way from sea to sea?

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

The common faults of American language are an ambition of effect, a want of simplicity, and a turgid abuse of terms.

Where are your combing seas, your blue water, your rollers, your breakers, your whales, or your waterspouts, and your endless motion, in this bit of a forest, child?

All greatness of character is dependent on individuality.

I've heard it said that there are men who read in books to convince themselves there is a God. I know not but man may so deform his works in the settlements, as to leave that which is so clear in the wilderness a matter of doubt among traders and priests.

On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.