I've taken my fun where I've found it; I've rogued an' I've ranged in my time. - Rudyard Kipling

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

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood