If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. . . . The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.
He wrapped himself in quotations- as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.
Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established.