Jubal Sackett

It is not enough to do, one must also become. I wish to be wiser, stronger, better. This--" I held out my hands "--this thing that is me is incomplete. It is only the raw material with which I have to work. I want to make it better than I received it.

Need and desire have no connection,' I said. 'Many people desire things they do not need. Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

For it is given that no man can do it all, that each must carry the future forward a few years and then pass the message on to him who follows.

She did not believe me. "You do not worship the Sun." "The sun gives life to all things. Without the sun this would be a dark, dead world. Perhaps," I added, "the spirit we worship is the same, and only the names are different. The message from He who rules over us all may come to each people in a different way.

It is our custom that a Stinkard must always marry a Sun.

Most of all we needed a fat bear, for of all things, fat is the hardest to come by in the wilderness.

But the young men of all tribes were eager to take scalps and the prestige that followed.

I will go with you, and when you make your camp, I will cook your meat, and when you wish to sleep, I will prepare your bed. Where you go, I will go.

This is our bed. Keep it clean.

A dead man they could leave, but a wounded man they must care for.

There was never a place he walked that was not the better for his having passed. For every tree he cut down he planted two.

He wastes no time yet is never hurried.

He should have been drowned at birth.

eat the meat of strange animals before I died.

It is through wonder that we come to know.

I wished I had a book. It had been so long since I had read. Could a man forget how to read?

Uninformed he might be, unintelligent he was not,

When I awakened I was cold, colder than I had ever been before.

We accepted all people as they were and trusted nobody until they had proved themselves trustworthy.

I am one who lives to learn.

Fire, man’s first and faithful friend, and ever a potential enemy.

The wounds had healed, but the scars would be mine forever.

When there are no new ideas things can remain the same,

I know only that civilizations seem to be like people. They are born, they grow to maturity, then they age and lose their vitality and they die, only to be born again in later years.

Many people desire things they do not need.

Happiness can be measured by what one does not need, but often to see is to want.

Each day is a day to live and in which to keep from dying, and a man’s energies are directed out from himself and his thoughts as well.