Nathaniel Parker: Charles Dickens

Quotes 

• Charles Dickens : [after meeting Choctaw Chief Pitchlynn]  He took his leave; as stately and complete a gentleman of Nature's making, as ever I beheld.

• Charles Dickens : [after meeting Choctaw Chief Pitchlynn]  On my telling him that I regretted not to see him in his own attire, he threw up his right arm, for a moment, as though he were brandishing some heavy weapon, and answered, as he let it fall again, that his race were losing many things besides their dress, and would soon be seen upon the earth no more.

• Charles Dickens : But what words shall describe the Mississippi, great father of rivers, who - praise be to Heaven - has no young children like him! An enormous ditch, sometimes two or three miles wide; nothing pleasant in its aspect, but the harmless lightning which flickers every night upon the dark horizon.

• Charles Dickens : I shall, I have no doubt, be at issue with the inhabitants of St. Louis, in questioning the perfect salubrity of its climate, and in hinting that I think it must rather dispose to fever, in the summer and autumnal seasons, and has vast tracts of undrained swampy land around it.