An empty man is full of himself.

I have been a lucky man. But someone has to be.

All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

No man likes to be smoked out of his hole in February.

A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.