Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears, and so preparing the way for you later on. Sisters are women first, and sisters afterwards; and you will find that you do yourself harm.

I keep six honest serving men.

Humble because of knowledge; mighty by sacrifice.