The most Indian thing about the Indian is surely not his moccasins or his calumet, his wampum or his stone hatched, but traits of character and sagacity, skill, or passion.

The whole secret of the teacher's force lies in the conviction that men are convertible.

Every individual nature has its own beauty. One is struck in every company, at every fireside, with the riches of nature, when he hears so many new tones, all musical, sees in each person original manners, which have a proper and peculiar charm, and reads new expressions of face. He perceives that nature has laid for each the foundations of a divine building, if the soul will build thereon.

One more fagot of these adamantine bandages is the new science of Statistics.

The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.

This valley is the only place that comes up to the brag about it, and exceeds it.

Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.