A stricken tree, a living thing, so beautiful, so dignified, so admirable in its potential longevity, is, next to man, perhaps the most touching of wounded objects.
“Well, in pharmacology, if the effect is local, it's of course absolutely awkward to use it in any other way than as a local treatment.”
“In camp was found a book, the first of the kind I had ever seen, in which I was made a great hero, slaying Indians by the hundreds.”