Occupation: Author Birth: October 22, 1734 Death: September 26, 1820
Many heroic exploits and chivalrous adventures are related to me which exist only in the regions of fancy. With me the world has taken great libertie….
One day I undertook a tour through the country, and the diversity and beauties of nature I met with in this charming season, expelled every gloomy an….
Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place..
The religion I have to love and fear God, believe in Jesus Christ, do all the good to my neighbor, and myself that I can, do as little harm as I can ….
Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second parad….
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!.
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after..
I'm going now. My time has come..
No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once..
Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!.
Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but….
I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days..
I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days..
A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few men to attack a powerful army of experienced warri….
Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead..
I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences..
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight..
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife..
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably….
I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks..
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by….