Nobody got anywhere in this world by simply being content.
There's no stopping a man who knows he's in the right and keeps a-coming.
...Proximity to a noose danger and death ... can make man or woman appreciate things.
Few of us ever live in the present. We are forever anticipating what is to come or remembering what has gone.
He who plants a tree is a servant of God.
A man shares his days with hunger, thirst, and cold, with the good times and the bad, and the first part of being a man is to understand that.