The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

Since love is the most delicate and total act of a soul, it will reflect the state and nature of the soul.

The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

Life is fired at us point blank.

We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

The struggle with the past is not a hand-to-hand fight. The future overcomes it by swallowing it. If it leaves anything outside it is lost.