I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person.

Keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you.

If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it.

He became an officer and a gentleman, which is an enviable thing.

I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages.