A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do

A mistake constantly made by those who should know better is to judge people of the past by our standards rather than their own. The only way men or women can be judged is against the canvas of their own time.

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.

For a man with an education the world is a wide place and the opportunities are many

The thieves and killers are goin' to have guns, so if the honest men don't have 'em they just make it easier for the vicious.

Being scared can keep a man from getting killed, and often makes a better fighter out of him.

The key to understanding any people is in its art: its writing, painting, sculpture.