All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.
Rudyard KiplingIf you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.
Rudyard KiplingHe wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.
Rudyard KiplingOne can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person. If a man is keen on reading, I think he ought to open his mind to some older man who knows him and his life, and to take his advice in the matter, and above all, to discuss with him the first books that interest him.
Rudyard Kipling