I am I plus my circumstances.

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.

The common man, finding himself in a world so excellent, technically and socially, believes it has been produced by nature, and never thinks of the personal efforts of highly endowed individuals which the creation of this new world presupposed. Still less will he admit the notion that all these facilities still require the support of certain difficult human virtues, the least failure of which would cause the rapid disappearance of the whole magnificent edifice.

There are people who so arrange their lives that they feed themselves only on side dishes.

One age cannot be completely understood if all the others are not understood. The song of history can only be sung as a whole.

The choice of a point of view is the initial act of a culture.

An 'unemployed' existence is a worse negation of life than death itself.