Few places in this world are more dangerous than home. Fear not, therefore, to try the mountain passes. They will kill care, save you from deadly apathy, set you free, and call forth every faculty into vigorous, enthusiastic action.

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.

Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer.

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.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

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".

But to gain a perfect view, one must go yet further, over a curving brow to a slight shelf on the extreme brink.