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.

Razzy was insulting me silently somehow.

Nothing good ever comes without a price.

Though loyal and able and brave, Pea had never displayed the slightest ability to learn from his experience, though his experience was considerable. Time and again he would walk up on the wrong side of a horse that was known to kick, and then look surprised when he got kicked.

If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.

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

Death and worse happened on the plains.