"We are told that an Indian cannot be made to feel a slight. I confess I have never found an Indian who could not."

"I do not wish to be regarded as a member of any society which I have not joined."

"I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so compa…"

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see."

"Must the citizen ever for a moment, or in the least degree, resign his conscience to the legislator? Why has every man a conscience then?"