I have two doctors, my left leg and my right. When body and mind are out of gear (and those twin parts of me live at such close quarters that the one always catches melancholy from the other) I know that I shall have only to call in my doctors and I shall be well again.

We are the children of the earth and removed from her our spirit withers.

Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that very thing.

I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.

A little man often cast a long shadow.

We never know enough about the infinitely complex circumstances of any past event to prophesy the future by analogy.

There is no orthodoxy in walking. It is a land of many paths and no-paths, where every one goes his own and is right.