We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable.

Life is a struggle with things to maintain itself among them. Concepts are the strategic plan we form in answer to the attack.

Civilization is nothing else but the attempt to reduce force to being the last resort.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

There is but one way left to save a classic; to give up revering him and use him for our own salvation.

There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other.

The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid.