I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after..

No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once..

I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days..

Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight..

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….

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 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….

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife..

It isn't how you die. It's what you live for..

Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably….

I'm going now. My time has come..

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!.

I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days..

Having an exciting destination is like setting a needle in your compass. From then on, the compass knows only one point - its ideal. And it will fait….

I wouldn't give a tinker's damn for a man who isn't sometimes afraid. Fear's the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead..

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….

Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!.