It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

Aures habent et non audient` - `They have ears but hear not

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.

What one man can think, another man can do.

It was obvious that the matter had to be settled, and evasions were distasteful to me.

When I returned to partial life my face was wet with tears. How long that state of insensibility had lasted I cannot say. I had no means now of taking account of time. Never was solitude equal to this, never had any living being been so utterly forsaken.

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