Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.

Small aids to individuals, large aid to masses.

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

The love of one's own sex is precious, for it is neither provoked by vanity nor retained by flattery; it is genuine and sincere.

How strange that some people cannot believe in both the Book of Nature and the Book of God.

I am always the better for open-air breathing, and was certainly meant for the wandering life of the Indian.

I saw, in looking over Cooper, elements of a comet of 1825 which resemble what I get out for this, from my own observations, but I cannot rely upon my own.