Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion.

Friendship that flows from the heart cannot be frozen by adversity, as the water that flows from the spring cannogt congeal in winter.

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?

How easy it is for generous sentiments, high courtesy, and chivalrous courage to lose their influence beneath the chilling blight of selfishness, and to exhibit to the world a man who was great in all the minor attributes of character, but who was found wanting when it became necessary to prove how much principle is superior to policy.

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

There are evils worse than death.

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