Everyone has it within his power to say, this I am today, that I shall be tomorrow.

The one law that does not change is that everything changes, and the hardship I was bearing today was only a breath away from the pleasures I would have tomorrow, and those pleasures would be all the richer because of the memories of this I was enduring.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.

If you want the law to leave you alone, keep your hair trimmed and your boots shined.

Luck comes to a man who puts himself in the way of it. You went where something might be found and you found something, simple as that.

I fear there will be no future for those who do not change.

Historical novels are, without question, the best way of teaching history, for they offer the human stories behind the events and leave the reader with a desire to know more.