“Let him think that I am more man than I am and I will be so.”
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with that there is.”
“You can’t get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.”
“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think than in all other time. I’d like to be an old man to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”
“This was a big storm and he might as well enjoy it. It was ruining everything, but you might as well enjoy it.”
“For what are we born if not to aid one another?”
“Dying was nothing and he had no picture of it nor fear of it in his mind. But living was a field of grain blowing in the wind on the side of a hill. Living was a hawk in the sky. Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. Living was a horse between your legs and a carbine under one leg and a hill and a valley and a stream with trees along it and the far side of the valley and the hills beyond.”
“I am thee and thou art me and all of one is the other.”
