May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!

The mass of men lead lives of quiet desperation. What is called resignation is confirmed desperation.

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.