This is one of my favourite quotes of his:

These I will sing, and if one of you linger
Over my pages in the Long, Long Night,
And on some lone line lay a calloused finger,
Saying: "It's human-true - it hits me right;"
Then will I count this loving toil well spent;
Then will I dream awhile - content, content.

- Robert W. Service: To the Man of the High North -