His [Champlain's] books mark the man,-all for his theme and his purpose, nothing for himself. Crude in style, full of the superficial errors of carelessness and haste, rarely diffuse, often brief to a fault, they bear on every page the palpable impress of truth.

The lot of the favored guest of an Indian camp or village is idleness without repose, for he is never left alone, with the repletion of incessant and inevitabl…

The most momentous and far-reaching question ever brought to issue on this continent was: Shall France remain here, or shall she not?

In one point the plan was fatally defective, since it involved the deadly enmity of a race whose character and whose power were as yet but ill understood,--the…

I want to work in revelations, not just spin silly tales for money. I want to fish as deep down as possible into my own subconscious in the belief that once th…

If what you write is true, it will not be so because of what you are as a writer but because of what you are as a being. There can be no literary equivalent to…

In every man's writings, the character of the writer must lie recorded.