A family is a place where a body can share the no-account things, can talk of the little matters important only to ourselves, where we can laugh and … - Louis L'Amour

Strange how it was always the spoiled who weakened and cried first, and it was the injured, the maimed, the blind, and the poor who fought on alone.

"From The Skull and the Arrow:

"The man went on until he saw the dark opening of a cave. He turned to it for shelter then, as men have always done. Though there are tents and wickiups, halls and palaces, in his direst need man always returns to the cave.

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.