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

It is always interesting to see people in dead earnest, from whatever cause, and earthquakes make everybody earnest.

I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

You know that I have not lagged behind in the work of exploring our grand wilderness, and in calling everybody to come and enjoy the thousand blessings they have to offer.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

God has cared for these trees, saved them from drought, disease, avalanches, and a thousand tempests and floods. But he cannot save them from fools.