Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.

If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

I wouldn't trade a good horse for the best Rolls-Royce ever made -- unless I could trade the Rolls for two good horses.

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.