The world there was the flat world of the ancients; to the east, a cornfield that stretched to daybreak; to the west, a corral that reached to the sunset; between, the conquests of peace, dearer-bought than those of war.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but…

He had seen the end of an era, the sunset of the pioneer. He had come upon it when already its glory was nearly spent. So in the buffalo times a traveller used…

This is the greatest honour I have ever received in my life. Peace has always been my greatest concern. Yet in my childhood I learned to love it. My mother-an …

There is an imperialism that deserves all honor and respect - an imperialism of service in the discharge of great duties. But with too many it is the sense of …