It's a poor counsellor that won't take as well as give.
Men of different races and colors, and having different gifts and traditions, but, in the main, with the same nature.
Both have souls.
On the human imagination events produce the effects of time.
Thus, he who has travelled far and seen much is apt to fancy that he has lived long; and the history that most abounds in important incidents soonest assumes the aspect of antiquity.
Fright makes the wise silly, and the strong weak.
Why, Deerslayer, I've got to believe that a man meets with inimies easier than he meets with fri'nds.
It's skearful to think for how many causes one gets to be your inimy, and for how few your fri'nd.
Some take up the hatchet because you don't think just as they think; other some because you run ahead of 'em in the same idees.
Give me a woman for ra'al eloquence, if they'll only make up their minds to speak what they feel.