All the world was before me and every day was a holiday, so it did not seem important to which one of the world's wildernesses I first should wander.

Men use care in purchasing a horse, and are neglectful in choosing friends.

God never made an ugly landscape. All that sun shines on is beautiful, so long as it is wild.

When I first caught sight of (Mount Shasta) over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since.

I ran home in the moonlight with firm strides; for the sun-love made me strong.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

Some people miss flesh as a drunkard misses his dram.