A promise made is a debt unpaid..

I like to think that when I fall, A rain-drop in Death's shoreless sea, This shelf of books along the wall, Beside my bed, will mourn for me..

It's easy to fight when everything's right And you're mad with the thrill and the glory; It's easy to cheer when victory's near, And wallow in fields….

His life, though none too long, Was never dull: Of woman, wine and song Bill had his full..

The trails of the world be countless, and most of the trails be tried; You tread on the heels of the many, till you come where the ways divide;And on….

Our breath is brief, and being so Let's make our heaven here below, And lavish kindness as we go..

Just draw on your grit; it's so easy to quit - It's the keeping your chin up that's hard..

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They….

Alas! the road to Anywhere is pitfalled with disaster; There's hunger, want, and weariness, yet O we loved it so! As on we tramped exultantly, and no….

It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race..

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire.

When children's children shall talk of War as a madness that may not be; When we thank our God for our grief today, and blazon from sea to sea In the….

Write verse, not poetry. The public wants verse. If you have a talent for poetry, then don't by any means mother it, but try your hand at verse..

The only society I like is rough and tough, and the tougher the better. There's where you get down to bedrock and meet human people..

I have no doubts that the Devil grins, As seas of ink I spatter. Ye gods, forgive my “literary” sins – The other kind don’t matter..

I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there..

The lonely sunsets flare forlorn Down valleys dreadly desolate; The lonely mountains soar in scorn As still as death, as stern as fate..

Even goats may have starlight in their eyes..

I have an intense dislike for artificial society. In France, one could lead a free life - to do what one wanted to do without interference or critici….

Ah! the clock is always slow; it is later than you think..

Avoid extremes: be moderate In saving and in spending; An equable and easy gait Will win an easy ending..