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

At the touch of this divine light, the mountains seemed to kindle to a rapt, religious consciousness, and stood hushed like devout worshippers waiting to be blessed.

Most people who travel look only at what they are directed to look at. Great is the power of the guidebook maker, however ignorant.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

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.

One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.

I am very blessed. The Valley is full of people, but they do not annoy me. I revolve in pathless places and in higher rocks than the world and his ribbony wife can reach.