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

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.

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.

Principles . . . become modified in practice, by facts.

The ability to discriminate between that which is true and that which is false is one of the last attainments of the human mind.

When men struggle for the single life God has given them ... even their own kind seem no more than the beasts of the wood.

The sublimity connected with vastness, is familiar to every eye.