No man is lost while he yet lives.

A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.

When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.

When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father.

Men strive for peace, but it is their enemies that give them strength, and I think if man no longer had enemies, he would have to invent them, for his strength only grows from struggle.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

Trade is much superior to piracy. You can rob and kill a man but once, but you can cheat him again and again.