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.
Adventure is nothing but a romantic name for trouble.
To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
The dancer becomes the dance. And I am the writing.
Trail dust is thicker'n blood.
... the mind must be prepared for knowledge as one prepares a field for planting, and a discovery made too soon is no better than a discovery not made at all.