Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

"In the woods we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life~~no disgrace, no calamity (leaving me my eyes), which nature cannot repair."

Perception is a mirror not a fact. And what I look on is my state of mind, reflected outward.

Tragedy is in the eye of the observer, and not in the heart of the sufferer.

The only thing grief has taught me is to know how shallow it is.

We live by our imagination, our admirations, and our sentiments.

That which befits us, embosomed in beauty and wonder as we are, is cheerfulness, and courage, and the endeavor to realize our aspirations. Shall not the heart which has received so much, trust the Power by which it lives? May it not quit other leadings, and listen to the Soul that has guided it so gently, and taught it so much, secure that the future will be worthy of the past?