The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.

A journey is time suspended.

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.

I do not like violence, but ours is a violent time, and there are some men who understand nothing else.

Dogma is invariably wrong, as knowledge is always in a state of transition.

The trail is the thing, not the end of the trail. Travel too fast, and you miss all you are traveling for.

The way I see it, every time a man gets up in the morning he starts his life over. Sure, the bills are there to pay, and the job is there to do, but you don't have to stay in a pattern. You can always start over, saddle a fresh horse and take another trail.