But whatever my failure, I have this thing to remember - that I was a pioneer in my profession, just as my grandfathers were in theirs, in that I was the first man in this section to earn his living as a writer.

The people among which I lived - and yet live, mainly - made their living from cotton, wheat, cattle, oil, with the usual percentage of business men and professional men.

No man can be convinced when he will not.

One man's bane is another's bliss.

What shall a man say when a friend has vanished behind the doors of Death? A mere tangle of barren words, only words.

It is an ill thing to meet a man you thought dead in the woodland at dusk.

But not all men seek rest and peace; some are born with the spirit of the storm in their blood.

Animals are neither gods nor fiends, but men in their way without the lust and greed of man.

Aye, you white dog, you are like all your race; but to a black man gold can never pay for blood.