Daniel Boone
All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.Collection: Good
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 and vexatious thought.Collection: Nature
Nature was here a series of wonders, and a fund of delight.Collection: Nature
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.
I was happy in the midst of dangers and inconveniences.
In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.
In such a diversity it was impossible I should be disposed to melancholy.
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 paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.
I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below.
Most of the memorable events I have myself been exercised in; and, for the satisfaction of the public, will briefly relate the circumstances of my adventures, and scenes of life, from my first movement to this country until this day.
We were then in a dangerous, helpless situation, exposed daily to perils and death amongst savages and wild beasts, not a white man in the country but ourselves.
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 a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.
In this time the enemy began to undermine our fort, which was situated sixty yards from Kentucky River.
On the fourth day of July following, a party of about two hundred Indians attacked Boonsborough, killed one man, and wounded two.
During our travels, the Indians entertained me well; and their affection for me was so great, that they utterly refused to leave me there with the others, although the Governor offered them one hundred pounds sterling for me, on purpose to give me a parole to go home.
Let peace, descending from her native heaven, bid her olives spring amidst the joyful nations; and plenty, in league with commerce, scatter blessings from her copious hand!
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.
May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!
In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners.
It isn't how you die. It's what you live for.Collection: Dies
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.Collection: Jesus
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 faithfully guide you there through the darkest nights and fiercest stormsCollection: Night
Fear is the spice that makes it interesting to go ahead.Collection: Interesting
Heaven must be a Kentucky kind of place.Collection: Kentucky
I've opened the way for others to make fortunes, but a fortune for myself was not what I was after.Collection: Way
No, I never did get lost, but I was bewildered for three days once.Collection: Determination
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.Collection: Fear
Have I made my peace with God? I didn't know we'd quarreled!Collection: Peace With God
Curiosity is natural to the soul of man and interesting objects have a powerful influence on our affections. Let these influencing powers actuate, by the permission or disposal of Providence, from selfish or social views, yet in time the mysterious will of Heaven is unfolded, and we behold our conduct, from whatever motives excited, operating to answer the important designs of heaven.Collection: Powerful
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 liberties, and yet I have been but a common man.Collection: Taken
I was never lost in the woods in my whole life, though once I was confused for three days.Collection: Confused
I'm going now. My time has come.Collection: Last Words
I've never been lost, but I've been a mite bewildered for a few days.Collection: Lost
Thus we behold Kentucky, lately an howling wilderness, the habitation of savages and wild beasts, become a fruitful field; this region, so favourably distinguished by nature, now become the habitation of civilization, at a period unparalleled in history, in the midst of a raging war, and under all the disadvantages of emigration to a country so remote from the inhabited parts of the continent.Collection: Country
Lightning does not often strike twice in the same place.Collection: Lightning
Nothing embitters my old age [like] the circulation of absurd stories that I retire as civilization advances, that I shun the white men and seek the Indians, and that now even when old, I seek to retire beyond the second Alleganies.Collection: Men