Luck is being ready for the chance.

The chief contribution made by white men of the Americas to the folk songs of the world ——- the cowboy songs of Texas and the West ——- are rhythmed to the walk, the trot, and the gallop of horses.

Texans are the only race of people known to anthropologists who do not depend on breeding for propagation. Like princes and lords, they can be made by breath; plus a big hat-which comparatively few Texans wear.

The man for whom history is bunk is almost invariably as obtuse to the future as he is blind to the past.

The boundaries of culture and rainfall never follow survey lines.

The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

Putting on the spectacles of science in expectation of finding an answer to everything looked at signifies inner blindness.