I have told many, yet when I go down that last trail, I know there will be a thousand stories hammering at my skull, demanding to be told. - Louis L'Amour

Books are precious things, but more than that, they are the strong backbone of civilization. They are the thread upon which it all hangs, and they can save us when all else is lost.

He spoke softly to the horse, and its ears twitched. It was funny about a horse — how much they would give for gentleness. There was no animal that responded so readily to good treatment, and no other animal would run itself to death for a man — except, occasionally, a dog.

You are an educated man, Old One.'
'What is education besides a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life? There are many kinds of education, and often education closes as many doors as it opens for to believe implies disbelief. One accepts one kind of belief but closes the mind to all that is, or seems to be contradictory.