What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force?
The human mind delights in grand conceptions of supernatural beings.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things, and beyond human endurance.
The wisest man may be a blind father.
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
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.