"He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met."

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

"Neither Heaven nor Hell. It is simply Purgatory."

"I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives. I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him."

"I'm not concerned that you have fallen, I'm concerned that you arise."

"No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

"The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders."

"I hold it true, whate'er befall; I feel it, when I sorrow most; 'Tis better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all."

"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

"He loved humankind dearly and with all his heart, but he disliked most human beings."

"Neurotics chase after people and jobs they don't really want, just to prove that they are like everybody else - which is the last thing they really want."

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."