Victory is won not in miles but in inches. Win a little now, hold your ground, and later, win a little more.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

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.

I really learned how to write from Robert Louis Stevenson, Anthony Trollope, and de Maupassant.

He who plants a tree is a servant of God.

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

My lady had the body of a siren, the face of a goddess, and the mind of an Armenian camel dealer.