No man is a complete ruler or dictator. He is only the mouthpiece for the wishes of his followers. As long as he expresses those wishes, he leads them.
The wind was cold off the mountains and I was a naked man with enemies behind me and nothing before me but hope.
If there is something, though, if there is...well, I believe in the things I love...the feel of a good horse under me, the blue along those mountains over yonder, the firm, confident feel of a good gu...
Our world is made up of a myriad of microcosms, of tiny worlds, each with its own habitues, every one known to the others.
We are, finally, all wanderers in search of knowledge. Most of us hold the dream of becoming something better than we are, something larger, richer, in some way more important to the world and ourselv...
He never knew when he was whipped ... so he never was.
A body shouldn't heed what might be. He's got to do with what is.
There was a Texas Ranger one time who said that there's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
A mountain man tries to live with the country instead of against it.
I've a regard for law, although I do not always agree with it. Without law, man becomes a beast.
This-this was what made life: a moment of quiet the water falling in the fountain the girl's voice ... a moment of captured beauty. He who is truly wise will never permit such moments to escape.
The idea of education has been so tied to schools, universities, and professors that many assume there is no other way, but education is available to anyone within reach of a library, a post office, o...
I would not sit waiting for some value tomorrow nor for something to happen. One could wait a lifetime. ... I would make something happen.
The one law that does not change is that everything changes and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow and those pleasures would be all the...
What a man wants to do he generally can do if he wants to badly enough.
To live in a city, one must be larger than one's environment or enjoy belonging to the crowd.
Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a So...
If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
Kill him? Would that be it? No man knew better than he the tricks that Destiny plays on a man, or how often the right man dies at the wrong time and place. A man never wore a gun without inviting trou...