When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.
I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.
When you go to a country, you must learn how to say two things: how to ask for food, and to tell a woman that you love her. Of these the second is more important, for if you tell a woman you love her, she will certainly feed you.
A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.
The saddle is a place for dreaming when there’s hours of trail ahead...
One never realizes how much and how little he knows until he starts talking.
There are shadows for the shadows of things, as a reflection seen in a mirror of a mirror. We know there are circles within circles and dimensions beyond dimension. Reality is itself a shadow, only an appearance accepted by those whose eyes shun what might lie beyond.
No matter how much I admire our schools, I know that no university exists that can provide an education; what a university can provide is an outline, to give the learner a direction and guidance. The rest one has to do for oneself.
A great book begins with an idea; a great life, with a determination.
A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.
The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?
A man can lose sight of everything else when he’s bent on revenge, and it ain’t worth it.
I have read my books by many lights, hoarding their beauty, their wit or wisdom against the dark days when I would have no book, nor a place to read. I have known hunger of the belly kind many times over, but I have known a worse hunger: the need to know and to learn.
Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you.
Books are the building blocks of civilization, for without the written word, a man knows nothing beyond what occurs during his own brief years and, perhaps, in a few tales his parents tell him.
Only one who has learned much can fully appreciate his ignorance.
The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.
To a fool time brings only age not wisdom.
Victory is not won in miles but in inches.
A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. You have a chance to select from pretty elegant furnishings.