"A thin grey fog hung over the city, and the streets were very cold; for summer was in England."

"All kinds of magic are out of date and done away with, except in India, where nothing changes in spite of the shiny, top-scum stuff that people call 'civilization."

"Holden went to his bungalow and began to understand that he was not alone in the world, and also that he was afraid for the sake of another, -- which is the most soul-satisfying fear known to man."

"One paid for one's knowledge with one's skin."

"(An unhappy childhood was not) an unsuitable preparation for my future, in that it demanded a constant wariness, the habit of observation, and the attendance on moods and tempers; the noting of discrepancies between speech and action; a certain reserve of demeanour; and automatic suspicion of sudden favours."

"Witta feared nothing - except to be poor."

"Take up the white man's burden - Send forth the best ye breed - Go bind your sons to exile To serve your captives' need."

"This is the great world, and I am only Kim. Who is Kim?' He considered his own identity, a thing he had never done before, till his head swam. He was one insignificant person in all this roaring whirl of India, going southward to he knew not what fate."

"If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son."

"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."

"A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower."

"Sing for faith and hope are high - None so true as you and I - Sing the Lovers' Litany: 'Love like ours can never die!'"

"Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs."

"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."

"God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers."

"Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges -- Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!"

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