I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree, whose loneliness was relieved by the grotesque visions with which, owing to bodily weakness, his diseased imagination surrounded him, and which he believed to be real. So also, owing to bodily and mental health and strength, we may be continually cheered by a like but more normal and natural society, and come to know that we are never alone.

It behooves every man to see that his influence is on the side of justice, and let the courts make their own characters.

As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

Man is but the place where I stand.

I learned what it is to live in the open air, and I learned that our lives are domestic in more sense than we think.

It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.