"Ah! Women and young girls, how incomprehensible are your feminine hearts! When you are not the timidest, you are the bravest of creatures..."

"The only good Indian is a dead Indian—this is true in America as in India."

"All that is human must retrograde, or else advance."

"It is a great misfortune to be too much alone, and, above all, to be without some one to whom one can talk with perfect freedom."

"It is as easy to invent a history of the future as of the past."