The fact is I am growing old too fast, alas! I feel it, and yet work I will, and may God grant me life to see the last plate of my mammoth work finished.

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.

What use is of an eye to be open if it's not there to see! Shouldn't it rather be gauged or closed for it deceives?

As Gates had told the pastor that day in his house. "I can do anything I put my mind to".

The belonging you seek is not behind you. It is ahead.

In a gentle way, you can shake the world.

There has been little or no mention of the vast body of law which contradicts your position. I think you owe it to the people whom you address to explain its existence.

If you want to create a different character, you can do so just by altering your style of dress and cosmetics.

With age, life becomes complex and difficult, often fraught with risk on several levels, from the practical to the fiscal.

Is faith so cheap, my child? Faith is the last word. If one has faith, the goal is practically reached.

The key to acting with integrity is to simply stop playing the game.

I was making my living from a joke about my appearance that I didn't understand, and in a way still don't, because when I look in a mirror it doesn't seem funny to me.