No sooner is the rage of hunger appeased than it becomes difficult to comprehend the meaning of starvation. It is only when you suffer that you really understand.

I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new

We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.

It's really useful to travel, if you want to see new things.

I believe cats to be spirits come to earth. A cat, I am sure, could walk on a cloud without coming through.

Nothing is more dreadful than private duels in America. The two adversaries attack each other like wild beasts. Then it is that they might well covet those wonderful properties of the Indians of the prairies - their quick intelligence, their ingenious cunning, their scent of the enemy.

On the surface of the ocean, men wage war and destroy each other; but down here, just a few feet beneath the surface, there is a calm and peace, unmolested by man