Hamlin Garland

“The magic of the prairie is in its vastness.”

“It is the curse of the farmer that he is generally the last to feel the new spirit of the age.”

“The love of beauty is the best of all faiths.”

“To be an American is to be an idealist.”

“A man does not need to be a grand officer to be a grand man.”

“Art, to be art, must be local.”

“The true trailer is a lover of the trail, not of the inn.”

“The sun is the great democrat.”

“Pioneers are not like other people. Their muscles are iron, their nerves are steel.”

“The past is a vast, receding shore, and the present is a canoe in which we are paddled out into the night.”

“There is nothing in the world so delightful as a good-humored hint.”

“The west is a land of dreams.”