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

We do not at present educate people to think but, rather, to have opinions, and that is something altogether different.

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

... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.

Man needs so little... yet he begins wanting so much.

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

No man is lost while he yet lives.