There are not enough Indians in the world to defeat the Seventh Cavalry.
It may be proper to observe, that I had now passed the utmost frontier of the white settlements on that border.
On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.
If we bestow but a very little attention to the economy of the animal creation, we shall find manifest examples of premeditation, perseverance, resolution, and consumate artifice, in order to effect their purpose.
My progress was rendered delightful by the sylvan elegance of the groves, chearful meadows, and high distant forests, which in grand order presented themselves to view.
Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when abandoned.
The parental, and filial affections seem to be as ardent, their sensibility and attachment, as active and faithful, as those observed to be in human nature.
Daydreaming incubates creative discovery.
The scariest monsters are the ones that lurk within our souls.
If a man, before he passed from one stage to another, could know his future life in full detail, he would have nothing to live for. It is the same with the life of humanity. If it had a programme of the life which awaited it before entering a new stage, it would be the surest sign that it was not living, nor advancing, but simply rotating in the same place.
When we take time to quiet ourselves, we can all sense that our life could be lived with greater compassion and greater weakness.