The mercantile business did not suit me

To be a good draftsman was to me a blessing.

A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.

When the bird and the book disagree, believe the bird.

But hopes are shy birds flying at a great distance, seldom reached by the best of guns.

I can scarcely manage to scribble a tolerable English letter. I know that I am not a scholar, but meantime I am aware that no man living knows better than I do the habits of our birds.

One day I caught four Dolphins, how much I have gazed at these beautiful creatures... as they changed their hue in twenty varieties of richest arrangement of tints.

Never give up listening to the sounds of birds.

In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.

During all these years there existed within me a tendency to follow Nature in her walks.

I’m not looking for fate. I’m seventeen. I’m looking for kissing, and to move forward a few paces on the game board. You know, do some Living. (With my lips.)

Choose a wife rather by your ear than your eye.

The pattern's laid out on the bed With dozens of colors of thread But you've got the needle I guess that's the point in the end

They never clocked me on my way to the end zone. They never caught me because I ran scared.

In the circumstances in which the Republic finds itself, the constitution cannot be inaugurated; it would destroy itself. The provisional government of France is revolutionary until there is peace.

In our rich consumers' civilization we spin cocoons around ourselves and get possessed by our possessions.

The Arab and Islamic countries suffer from severe backwardness, and the Western world wants to make them even more backward.

Death laughs when old women frolic.

It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.

For the way in which the word is experienced is always momentous