If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?

A Time For Prayer "In times of war and not before, God and the soldier we adore. But in times of peace and all things righted, God is forgotten and the soldier slighted." -Rudyard Kipling

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty.