Everybody likes and respects self-made men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way than not to be made at all. - Oliver Wendell Holmes

People do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing. ~

Little I ask, my wants are few;
I only wish a hut of stone,
(A very plain brown stone will do,)
That I may call my own;—
And close at hand is such a one,
In yonder street that fronts the sun.

The men of facts wait their turn in grim silence, with that slight tension about the nostrils which the consciousness of carrying a "settler" in the form of a fact or a revolver gives the individual thus armed.