Books are the perfect Time Machine. By the simple act of opening a book you can, in an instant, be travelling up a jungle river without once being bitten by mosquitoes, or you can almost die of thirst in the desert while holding a cold drink in your hand, or dine in the finest restaurants and never have to worry about paying the bill, or ride the wild country of our western frontier and never worry about losing your scalp to a raiding party.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles

No man is lost while he yet lives.

What a man wants to do he generally can do, if he wants to badly enough.

Revenge could steal a man's life until there was nothing left but emptiness.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.

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