Only a rank degenerate would drive 1,500 miles across Texas without eating a chicken fried steak.

Listening to women ain't the fashion in this part of the country.

It's really quite simple. Mr. Isinglass robbed my father, destroyed my mother, exiled my brothers, and ruined me. If I catch him asleep I'll kill him. I do hope you like this pudding. I had to ride quite a way to find the plums.

A bookman’s love of books is a love of books, not merely of the information in them.

I don't see how being married could be any worse than listening to you talk for twenty years, but that still ain't much of a recommendation for it.

If you want one thing too much it’s likely to be a disappointment. The healthy way is to learn to like the everyday things, like soft beds and buttermilk—and feisty gentlemen.

Americans don't want cowboys to be gay.