It is impossible to be among the woods animals on their own ground without a feeling of expanding one's own world, as when any foreign country is visited.

It seems to me that the earth may be borrowed but not bought. It may be used but not owned. We are tenants, not possessors, lovers and not masters.

A man'll seem like a person to a woman, year in, year out. She'll put up and she'll put up. Then one day he'll do something maybe no worse than what he's been a-doing all his life. She'll look at him. And without no warning he'll look like a varmint.

to comfort any mortal against loneliness, one other is enough.

Information can be passed from one to another, like a silver dollar. There's absolutely no wisdom except what you learn for yourself.

He who tries to forget a woman, never loved her

I had done battle with a great fear and the victory was mine.