A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers, for each rage leaves him less than he had been before - it takes something from him.
My future is one I must make myself.
Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.
Much of command is the ability to take command.
To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.