A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

Suicide: Don't knock it if you ain't tried it.

For this world that men have made, none of us is bad enough. For the world that made us, none is good enough.

A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.

An empty man is full of himself.