“Whatever people in general do not understand, they are always prepared to dislike; the incomprehensible is always the obnoxious.”

“I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.”

“There is a large stock on hand; but somehow or other, nobody's experience ever suits us but our own.”

“Were it not better to forgetThan but remember and regret”

“Most people do not see the world as it is. They see it as they are”

“American natives were thought to be a simple, malleable people who, once they came to understand the benefits of European faith and civilization, would embrace them.”

“Somebody should tell us, right at the start of our lives, that we are dying. Then we might live life to the limit, every minute of every day. Do it! I say. Whatever you want to do, do it now! There are only so many tomorrows.”