No man is a man unless to his woman he is a pioneer.

They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.

For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.

Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation.

I think I am much too valuable a creature to offer myself to a German bullet gratis and for fun.

The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.

The whole life-effort of man is to get his life into direct contact with the elemental life of the cosmos, mountain life, cloud life, thunder life, air life, earth life, sun life. To come into immediate felt contact, and so derive energy, power and a dark sort of joy. This effort into sheer naked contact, without an intermediary or mediator is the root meaning of religion.