'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'

Good nature is stronger than tomahawks.

There is no prosperity, trade, art, city, or great material wealth of any kind, but if you trace it home, you will find it rooted in a thought of some individual man.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

We must be very suspicious of the deceptions of the element of time. It takes a good deal of time to eat or to sleep, or to earn ahundred dollars, and a very little time to entertain a hope and an insight which becomes the light of our life.

People only see what they are prepared to see.

A man is known by the books he reads.