Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader wi… - Louis L'Amour

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it.

A man ought to know enough to make a choice; and pa, he always advised me to look to both sides of a proposition.

How much can a man endure? How long could a man continue? These things I asked myself, for I am a questioning man, yet even as I asked the answers were there before me. If he be a man indeed, he must always go on, he must always endure. Death is an end to torture, to struggle, to suffering, but it is also an end to warmth, light, the beauty of a running horse, the smell of damp leaves, of gunpowder, the walk of a woman when she knows someone watches. . . these things, too, are gone.