Occupation: Author Birth: October 22, 1734 Death: September 26, 1820
It isn't how you die. It's what you live for..
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..
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….
I'm going now. My time has come..
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably….
Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place..
I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences..
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….
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….
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by….
I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days..
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….
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!.
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife..
No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once..
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after..
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight..
Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead..
Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!.
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 ….