“Often when I have camped here, it has made me want to become the ground, become the water, become the trees, mix with the whole thing. Not know myself from it. Never unmix again.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal inequality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I reckon some parsons have a right to tell yu' to be good. The bishop of this hyeh Territory has a right. But I'll… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“All America is divided into two classes - the quality and the equality. The latter will always recognize the former when mistaken for it.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Here in flesh and blood was a truth which I had long believed in words, but never met before. The creature we call a… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
I thought there should in truth be heavy damages for malpractice on human souls. — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“The cowboy has now gone to worlds invisible; the wind has blown away the white ashes of his campfires; but the empty sardine box… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Forgive my asking you to use your mind. It is a thing which no novelist should expect of his reader...” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“Providence makes use of instruments I'd not touch with a ten-foot pole.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
