An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

Funny how the new things are the old things.

Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

I've taken my fun where I've found it, An' now I must pay for my fun, For the more you 'ave known o' the others The less will you settle to one.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

But till we are built like angels, with hammer and chisel and pen, we will work for ourself and a woman, forever and ever, Amen.