The deep sea can be fathomed, but who knows the heart of a woman?

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

A little rest and meditation often saves a lot of riding over rough country.

Today you can buy the Dialogues of Plato for less than you would spend on a fifth of whiskey, or Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire for the price of a cheap shirt. You can buy a fair beginning of an education in any bookstore with a good stock of paperback books for less than you would spend on a week's supply of gasoline.

The fact of the matter is that poor men do not often steal, and when they do, it is petty theft, something to eat or perhaps an item of clothing to keep them from the cold. Thieves are usually those who have something and want more.

There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

I do not believe writers should read reviews of their own books, and I do not. If one is not careful one is soon writing to please reviewers and not their audience or themselves.