Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others.

All calculations based on experience elsewhere, fail in New Mexico.

As a rule, he fights well who has wrongs to redress; but vastly better fights he who, with wrongs as a spur, has also steadily before him a glorious result in prospect--a result in which he can discern balm for wounds, compensation for valor, remembrance and gratitude in the event of death.

As a rule, there is no surer way to the dislike of men than to behave well where they have behaved badly.

When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.

To begin a reform, go not into the places of the great and rich; go rather to those whose cups of happiness are empty--to the poor and humble.

Riches take wings, comforts vanish, hope withers away,but love stays with us. Love is God.