You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed.

If you want anything done right you will have to see to it yourself every time.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

What have you done when you have bested a fool?

On his deathbed he asked for a priest and became a Catholic. That was his wife's religion. It was his own business and none of mine. If you had sentenced one hundred and sixty men to death and seen around eighty of them swing, then maybe at the last minute you would feel the need for some stronger medicine than the Methodists could make.

Lookin' back is a bad habit.

You must pay for everything in this world one way and another. There is nothing free except the Grace of God. You cannot earn that or deserve it.