"I always try to believe the best of everybody -it saves so much trouble."

"A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down."

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

"All good people agree, And all good people say,All nice people, like Us, are We And every one else is They:But if you cross over the sea, Instead of over the way,You may end by (think of it!) looking on We As only a sort of They!"

"If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine."

"O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll."

"Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work."

"Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears."

"To hear is one thing, to know is another."

"Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength."

"And only the Master shall praise us and only the Master shall blame And no one shall work for money and no one shall work for fame But each for the joy of the working and each in his separate star Shall draw the Thing as he sees It for the God of things as They Are!"

"Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul."

"It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening. They emptied a big tin dish of juicy fragments of fish- the blood-ends the cook had collected overnight. They cleaned up the plates and pans of the elder mess, who were out fishing, sliced pork for the midday meal, swabbed down the foc'sle, filled the lamps, drew coal and water for the cook, an investigated the fore-hold, where the boat's stores were stacked. It was another perfect day - soft, mild and clear; and Harvey breathed to the very bottom of his lungs."

"We had a kettle, we let it leak:Our not repairing made it worse.We haven't had any tea for a week...The bottom is out of the Universe."

"If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten."

"Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says."

"What should they know of England who only England know?"

"But that is another story."

"Now this is the Law of the Jungle -- as old and as true as the sky;And the Wolf that shall keep it may prosper, but the Wolf that shall break it must die.As the creeper that girdles the tree-trunk the Law runneth forward and back --For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack."

"What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?"

"If you can walk with the crowd and keep your virtue, or walk with Kings-nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute with 60 seconds worth of distance run- Yours is the earth and everything that's in it, And-which is more-you'll be a man my son."

"There are nine and sixty ways of constructing tribal lays and every single one of them is right."

"And he grew and grew strong as a boy must grow who does not know that he is learning any lessons, and who has nothing in the world to think of except things to eat" (23)."

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

"These are the four that are never content: that have never been filled since the dew began-Jacala's mouth, and the glut of the kite, and the hands of the ape, and the eyes of Man."

"Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established."

"I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards."

"They're hangin' Danny Deever in the morning!"

"The colonel's lady and Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins."

"Everyone is more or less mad on one point."

"For the female of the species is more deadly than the male."

"Something I owe to the soil that grew--More to the life that fed--But most to Allah who gave me two Separate sides of my head. I would go without shirt or shoes, Friends, tobacco, or bread Sooner than for an instant lose Either side of my head."

"There is but one task for all --One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom."

"Anything from Kipling."

"His line was the jocundly-sentimental Wardour Street brand of adventure, told in a style that exactly met, but never exceeded, every expectation."

"What avail is honour or a sword against a pen?"

"A rag and a bone and a hank of hair."

"An' I learned about women from 'er."

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

"All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They."

"Ye may kill for yourselves, and your mates, and your cubs as they need, and ye can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, and seven times never kill Man!"

"One can't prescribe books, even the best books, to people unless one knows a good deal about each individual person."

"He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"I had come down here, not to serve God as a craftsman should, but to show my people how great a craftsman I was. They cared not."

"For the colonel's lady an' Judy O'Grady Are sisters under their skins."

"Gawd knows and 'E won't split on a pal."

"I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me."

"Threatened men live long."

"It seems - and who so astonished as they? - that they had held back material facts; that they were guilty of both suppressio veri and suggestio falsi (well-known gods against whom they often offended); further, that they were malignant in their dispositions, untrustworthy in their characters, pernicious and revolutionary in their influences, abandoned to the devils of wilfulness, pride, and a most intolerable conceit. Ninthly, and lastly, they were to have a care and to be very careful."

"Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house."