A genuine passion is like a mountain stream; it admits of no impediment; it cannot go backward; it must go forward.

Melancholy sees the worst of things...[rather than the best]

Difficulties, by bracing the mind to overcome them, assist cheerfulness, as exercise assists digestion.

Honesty is not only "the first step toward greatness," - it is greatness itself.

Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.

The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.

The worst deluded are the self-deluded.