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

It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.

The sight of a coward's blood can never make a warrior tremble.

I can't see no great difference atween givin' up territory afore a war, out of a dread of war, and givin' it up after a war, because we can't help it-unless it be that the last is the most manful and honourable.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

Ignorance and superstition ever bear a close and mathematical relation to each other.

The expanse of the ocean is seldom seen by the novice with indifference.