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 warriors.

I have never been lost, but I will admit to being confused for several weeks.

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

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

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 help, and trust on God's mercy for the rest.

In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.

Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.

Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.

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.

Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections.

Even if not a single fossil has ever been found, the evidence from surviving animals would still overwhelmingly force the conclusion that Darwin was right.

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

To be effective the preacher's message must be alive; it must alarm, arouse, challenge; it must be God's present voice to a particular people.

There's something scary about the unknown. And maybe the scariest movies couldn't ever be made because they are too deep in somebody's head, too unknown to get out.

Without error, there is no brilliancy.

If you let culture make tolerance the preeminent virtue, pretty soon you won't have anything else.

Is not the beautiful moon, that inspires poets, the same moon which angers the silence of the sea with a terrible roar?

I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over.

It may be a weed instead of a fish that, after all my labour, I at last pull up.

We see things like reciprocity which are fairly central to our view of ethics. But if you're talking about a set of worked-out rules on what we are supposed to do then, yes, it is a human product.