"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 would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion."

"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on this earth is not a hardship but a pastime, if we will but live simply and wisely; as the pursuits of the simpler nations a…"

"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?"

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison."