Stewart edward white quotes about happiness

Shepard. When he follows them, they sneak cunningly away. A fair wind of some force is absolutely fatal.

She isn't a bit better than they are. No matter how skilful your men are at stalking, the chances of alarming the game are greatly increased by numbers; while the possibilities of misunderstanding the plan of campaign, and so getting into the wrong place at the wrong time, are infinite. It may be the silence of a self-contained sufficiency; the silence of an equable mind; the silence variously of awe, even of fear; it may be the silence of sullenness.

But in the dwelling of the woods he becomes silent. They say you have made the power of the old-men as nothing, for what they commanded you denied when you brought our little sister in your canoe.”

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If he makes a misstep, he is precipitated ludicrously into feathery depths through which he must flounder to the nearest timber horse before he can remount. Merely they hold rigidly to the letter of the work and the day's discipline. A persistently unlucky man is perhaps sometimes to be pitied, but more often to be booted. Conversely, if a man endures hardships where a woodsman could be comfortable, it argues not his toughness, but his ignorance or foolishness, which is exactly the case with our blatant friend of the drawing-room reputation.

It usually takes you when you have made up your mind that there is no hurry. Probably nowhere in the world is a more dangerous man of his hands than the riverman. There are more lions than hunters; and, from our point of view, the man is more important than the beast.”

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