"The finest qualities of our nature, like the bloom on fruits, can be preserved only by the most delicate handling. Yet we do not treat ourselves nor one another thus tenderly."

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

"Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplici…"

"The gentleman is a man of leisure who knows how to use it."

"As for conforming outwardly, and living your own life inwardly, I do not think much of that."