And the people listened, and their faces were quiet with listening. The story tellers, gathering attention into their tales, spoke in great rhythms, spoke in great words because the tales were great, and the listeners became great through them.

There is no lostness like that which comes to a man when a perfect and certain pattern has dissolved about him.

The study of history, while it does not endow with prophecy, may indicate lines of probability.

Within that frame he went a long way and burned a deep scar.

Give me a used Bible and I will, I think, be able to tell you about a man by the places that are edged with the dirt of seeking fingers.

The Mojave is a big desert and a frightening one. It’s as though nature tested a man for endurance and constancy to prove whether he was good enough to get to California.

There is comfort in routine.