Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. Good mental machinery ought to break its own wheels and levers, if anything is thrust among them suddenly which tends to stop them or reverse their motion. A weak mind does not accumulate force enough to hurt itself; stupidity often saves a man from going mad.

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.

Cupid "the little greatest enemy."

Beware how you take away hope from any human being.

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.

The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor.