Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

No man ever raised a monument to a cynic or wrote a poem about a man without faith.

A man can learn a lot if he listens, and if I didn't learn anything else I was learning how much I didn't know.

I don't believe you know anything about a man like me or a country like this. It takes rough men, Miss Fair, to tame a rough country; rough men, but good men. Your father is in that class. As for you, I don't think you'd measure up, and you'll do well to leave it. You're a hothouse flower, very soft, very appealing and very useless...In the world you are going to, men want pretty useless women. They want toys for their lighte moments, and we have those women out here, too, only we have another name for them. We want women who can make a home, and if need be, handle a rifle.

When a man is one of a kind, he will be lonely wherever he is.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.