The world is full of scribbling Nobodies who think they’re scribbling Somebodies. - Robert W. Service

I count each day a little life, With birth and death complete;
I cloister it from care and strife And keep it sane and sweet.

This is the law of the Yukon, and ever she makes it plain:
"Send not your foolish and feeble; send me your strong and your sane --
Strong for the red rage of battle; sane for I harry them sore;
Send me men girt for the combat, men who are grit to the core

Marriage is a bachelor’s punishment for his sins