William Henry Quotes

We continued to move forward without loss of time, hoping to be able to reach the wood described by the Indians before all our horses should become exhausted. - William Henry Ashley

To Englishmen, life is a topic, not an activity. - William Henry Harrison

They urged me to take up winter quarters at the forks of the Platt, stating that if I attempted to advance further until spring, I would endanger the lives of my whole party. - William Henry Ashley

These people were well dressed in skins, had some guns, but armed generally with bows and arrows and such other instruments of war as are common among the Indians of the Missouri. - William Henry Ashley

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen. - William Henry Ashley

There is nothing more corrupting, nothing more destructive of the noblest and finest feelings of our nature, than the exercise of unlimited power. - William Henry Harrison

There is not so agonizing a feeling in the whole catalogue of human suffering as the first conviction that the heart of the being whom we most tenderly love is estranged from us. - William Henry

The Yellowstone river is a beautiful river to navigate. - William Henry Ashley

The weather was fine, the valleys literally covered with buffaloe, and everything seemed to promise a safe and speedy movement to the first grove of timber on my route, supposed to be about ten days' march. - William Henry Ashley

The very air in which you live is an inspiration. - William Henry Moody

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