"There will always be folks who will talk, and the better you do in the world the more bad things they will say of you. Back there in the settlement … - Louis L'Amour

Remember that, son. The dogs bark, but the wagons go on their way, and if you’re going someplace you haven’t time to bother with barking dogs.

This was the beginning of something, yet I had ventured back into a world from which I had come and found it an alien world of which I was no longer a part. In a sense I had always been alien. My Druidic training had taken me deep into a past that held more than the present, and along with it had been my father’s accounts, returning home after voyages, of a world beyond our shores. I had mingled with the men of his crews, almost half of which had come from other lands, other cultures, until I had become a stranger in my own land.

He had fought for a principle, and because it was his nature to fight.

This here's a hard country. If a man ain't fit, he can't last - Kilkenny