Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.

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

Ancestry is most important to those who have done nothing themselves.

What is today accepted as truth will tomorrow prove to be only amusing.

Our libraries are not cloisters for an elite. They are for the people, and if they are not used, the fault belongs to those who do not take advantage of their wealth.

I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told.

This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet, the water falling in the fountain, the girl's voice. . . a moment of captured beauty. Those who are truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.