A man on a horse is spiritually, as well as physically, bigger then a man on foot.

Montana seems to me to be what a small boy would think Texas is like from hearing Texans

My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood in titanic piscine war. But sometimes I do like a couple of cooperative fish of frying size.

It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.

You can boast about anything if it's all you have. Maybe the less you have, the more you are required to boast.

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

I have no choice of living or dying, you see, sir--but I do have a choice of how I do it. If I tell them not to fight, they will be sorry, but they will fight. If I tell them to fight, they will be glad, and I who am not a very brave man will have made them a little braver.