Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.

In the United States we have concentrated tremendous sums of money on the educational plant, seemingly with the idea that the right number of buildings will turn out the right number of graduates. Yet the teachers who actually instruct the future citizens of our country are more often than not miserably paid. If in the future we find ourselves with a lot of fourth-rate citizens, we have only ourselves to blame.

The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me, and nothing before me but hope.

A good beginning makes a good end.

I have been nothing, but there is tomorrow.

What people speak of as adventure is something nobody in his right mind would seek out, and it becomes romantic only when one is safely at home.

Caution always, but when a man acts he should act suddenly and with decision.