Willa Cather

No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.

Only solitary men know the full joys of frienship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile, his friends are everything.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

The history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.

Trees were so rare in that country, and they had to make such a hard fight to grow, that we used to feel anxious about them, and visit them as if they were persons. It must have been the scarcity of detail in that tawny landscape that made detail so precious.