There is no miraculous change that takes place in a boy that makes him a man. He becomes a man by being a man.

... we must read, not only for what we read but for what it makes us think.

Have faith in God but keep your powder dry.

I am somebody. I am me. And I don't need anybody to make me somebody.

A book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

A true gentleman is at a disadvantage in dealing with women. Women are realists, and their tactics are realistic, so no man should be a gentleman where women are concerned unless the women are very, very old or very, very young. Women admire gentlemen, and sleep with cads.

There have always been hard times. There have always been wars and troubles -famine, disease and such-like -and some folks are born with money, some with none. In the end it is up to the man what he becomes, and none of those other things matters. It is character that counts.