Alas! how little does the memory of these human inhabitants enhance the beauty of the landscape!

The perception of beauty is a moral test.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another?

I was not born to be forced. I will breathe after my own fashion. Let us see who is the strongest.