No one connected intimately with a writer has any appreciation of his temperament, except to think him overdoing everything.

Adam Larey gazed with hard and wondering eyes down the silent current of the red river upon which he meant to drift away into the desert

Men may rise on stepping stones of their dead selves to higher things.

A good rule of angling philosophy is not to interfere with any fishermans ways of being happy, unless you want to be hated.

Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

Love of man for woman--love of woman for man. That's the nature, the meaning, the best of life itself.

Realism is death to me. I cannot stand life as it is.