"Your frank and manly letter was very pleasing to me, and I was glad to get it. If you can’t like the Smith boy, leave him alone, because no matter how good a fighter he is, the people at school consider him an underdog. It never pays to fight an underdog. You can fight for them, but never against him.

It is very foolish, but quite understandable, that one should run around raising h**l, but it gets one nowhere and betrays a lack of self-confidence. A man who is self-confident does not run around with a gang. It is much better to be a lone wolf than a coyote.”