The emptiness was intense, like the stillness in a great factory when the machinery stops running.

Men travel faster now, but I do not know if they go to better things.

A watch is the most essential part of a lecture.

When people ask me if it has been a hard or easy road, I always answer with the same quotation, the end is nothing, the road is all.Willa Cather

Sometimes," I ventured, "it doesn't occur to boys that their mother was ever young and pretty. . . I couldn't stand it if you boys were inconsiderate, or thought of her as if she were just somebody who looked after you. You see I was very much in love with your mother once, and I know there's nobody like her.

The land belongs to the future.

There was a new kind of strength in the gravity of her face, and her colors still gave her that look of deep-seated health and ardor.