Walking is the natural recreation for a man who desires not absolutely to suppress his intellect but to turn it out to play for a season.

I believe that the ascent of mountains forms an essential chapter in the complete duty of man, and that it is wrong to leave any district without setting foot on its highest peak.

Genius is a capacity for taking trouble.

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

When I ceased to accept the teaching of my youth, it was not so much a process of giving up beliefs, as of discovering that I had never really believed.

The English literary movement at the end of the 18th century was obviously due in great part, if not mainly, to the renewed practice of walking.

Every man who says frankly and fully what he thinks is doing a public service.