A man can never have too much red wine, too many books, or too much ammunition

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.