Brother, the Great Spirit has made us all. . . . .

Nothing is so false as human life, nothing so treacherous. God knows no one would have accepted it as a gift, if it had not been given without our knowledge.

The real compensation of a right action is inherent in having performed it.

While we teach, we learn.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

A benefit consists not in what is done or given, but in the intention of the giver or doer.

Watch over yourself. Be your own accuser, then your judge; ask yourself grace sometimes, and, if there is need, impose upon yourself some pain.