"Yet it isn't the gold that I'm wantingSo much as just finding the gold.It's the great, big, broad land 'way up yonder,It's the forests where silence has lease;It's the beauty that thrills me with wond..."
- Robert W. Service
"A half-dead thing in a stark, dead world, clean mad for the muck called gold;While high overhead, green, yellow and red, the North Lights swept in bars?-Then you've a hunch was the music meant...hunge..."
"It’s the steady, quiet, plodding ones who win in the lifelong race."
"This is the Law of the Yukon that only the strong shall thrive That surely the weak shall perish and only the fit survive."
"It's the plugging away that will win you the day So don't be a piker old pard! Just draw on your grit it's so easy to quit- It's the keeping your chin up that's hard."
"Ah! the clock is always slow it is later than you think."
"The happy man is he who knows his limitations yet bows to no false gods."
"A promise made is a debt unpaid."