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.

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.

In order to master the unruly torrent of life the learned man meditates, the poet quivers, and the political hero erects the fortress of his will.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will.

All life is the struggle, the effort to be itself.