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

"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."

"A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty."

"Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade."

"Though I've belted you and flayed you By the livin' Gawd that made you You're a better man than I am Gunga Din."

"There was a small boy of Quebec Who was buried in snow to the neck: When they said 'Are you friz?' He replied 'Yes I is - But we don't call this cold in Quebec!'"

"The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it."

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."

"The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool."

"A fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

"Buy a pup and your money will buyLove unflinching that cannot lie."

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."

"He wrapped himself in quotations - as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors."

"Words are the most powerful drug used by mankind."

"We have done with Hope and Honour, we are lost to Love and Truth,We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung,And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth.God help us, for we knew the worst too young!from "Gentleman Rankers."

"Make ye no truce with Adam-zad - the Bear that walks like a man."

"One 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."

"Still stands thine ancient sacrifice - An humble and a contrite heart."

"For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one."

"Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old."

"He drew from under the table a sheet of strangely scented yellow-Chinese paper, the brushes, and slab of India ink. In cleanest, severest outline he had traced the Great Wheel with its six spokes, whose centre is the conjoined Hog, Snake, and Dove (Ignorance, Anger, and Lust), and whose compartments are all the heavens and hells, and all the chances of human life."

"We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding."

"You may kill for yourselves, and your mates,and your cubs as they need, and you can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, andSEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN."

"San Francisco is a mad city - inhabited for the most part by perfectly insane people whose women are of a remarkable beauty."

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

"A people always ends by resembling its shadow."

"There is sorrow enough in the natural wayFrom men and woman to fill our day;But when we are certain of sorrow in store,Why do we always arrange for more?Brothers & Sisters, I bid you bewareOf giving your heart to a dog to tear."

"For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that and "Chuck 'im out the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country " when the guns begin to shoot."

"I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and Who."

"It's clever but is it art?"

"One man in a thousand, Solomon says.Will stick more close than a brother.And it's worth while seeking him half your daysIf you find him before the other.---The Thousandth Man."

"Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till some one had told a story."

"Nations have passed away and left no traces And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases They fell because their peoples were not fit."

"It is not any common earth,Water or wood or air,But Merlin's Isle of GramaryeThat you and I will fare."

"Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment's sake. Shere Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave mouth growling..."

"And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?""

"God help us for we knew the worst too young."

"Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run."

"Down to Gehenna or up to the throne He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"There is no gift like friendship. Remember this - when you become a young man. For your fate will turn on the first true friend you make."

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."

"If you hit a pony over the nose at the outset of your acquaintance he may not love you but he will take a deep interest in your movements ever afterwards."

"If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'"

"No one thinks of Winter when the grass is green."

"If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!"

"A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke."

"It's clever, but is it Art?"

"At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen,You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun.And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten,And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done."

"I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages."

"Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets."