Adventure is just a romantic name for trouble. It sounds swell when you write about it, but it's hell when you meet it face to face in a dark and lonely place.

Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

He never knew when he was whipped ... So he never was.

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

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

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