“A frightened man is a beaten man.”

“A man with no sword can never be beaten in swordmanship.”

“And now they were weary and frightened because they had gone against a system they did not understand and it had beaten them. They knew that the team and the wagon were worth much more. They knew the buyer man would get much more, but they didn't know how to do it. Merchandising was a secret to them.”

“A tree weeps when cut down, a dog howls when beaten, but a man matures when offended.”

“Money problems can always be solved by a man not frightened by them. ”

“In advance of the dogs, on wide snowshoes, toiled a man. At the rear of the sled toiled a second man. On the sled, in the box, lay a third man whose toil was over - a man whom the Wild had conquered and beaten down until he would never move nor struggle again.”