West with the Night

by Beryl Markham

TO AN EAGLE OR to an owl or to a rabbit, man must seem a masterful and yet a forlorn animal; he has but two friends. In his almost universal unpopularity he points out, with pride, that these two are the dog and the horse.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.