Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending.

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter.

I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me.

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think.

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people.

Some praise the Lord for Light, The living spark; I thank God for the Night The healing dark.

This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.