You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.

If they keep exposing you to education, you might even realize some day that man becomes immortal only in what he writes on paper, or hacks into rock, or slabbers onto a canvas, or pulls out of a piano.

Any time a boy is ready to learn about guns is the time he’s ready, no matter how young he is, and you can’t start too young to learn how to be careful.

A man can build a staunch reputation for honesty by admitting he was in error, especially when he gets caught at it.

Texan is what you are, not what you were or might be.

Time just seems to fly away for a boy. That, I s’pose, is why one day you wake up suddenly and you ain’t a boy any longer.

Never knew a man not to be improved by a dog.

If a man does away with his traditional way of living and throws away his good customs, he had better first make certain that he has something of value to replace them.

When we take away from a man his traditional way of life, his customs, hi religion, we had better make certain to replace it with SOMETHING OF VALUE

To understand Africa you must understand a basic impulsive savagery that is greater than anything we civilised people have encountered in two centuries