“she would watch him with eyes that were fuller of love than of understanding.” — 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
“When a man ain't got no ideas of his own," said Scipio, "he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.” — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
“It was through the Declaration of Independence that we Americans acknowledged the eternal quality of man. For by it we abolished a cut-and-dried aristocracy.… — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
When a man ain't got no ideas of his own, he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from. — Owen Wister Copy Share Image
