I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.
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 wh...
Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.
Witta feared nothing - except to be poor.
Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things, and it is unsportsmanlike to touch him.
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 Law of the Jungle 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 gir...
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
And with an almost audible click he felt the wheels of his being lock up anew on the world without. Things that rode meaningless on the eyeball an instant before slid into proper proportion. Roads wer...
Of all the liars in the world, sometimes the worst are our own fears.
Barbarians are all alike... sit up half the night to discuss anything a Roman says.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
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...
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,But make allowance for their doubting too;If you can wait and not...
The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence...
Like everything else in the world, it is one man's work.
It isn't what you say so much. It's what you mean when you say it.
India was awake, and Kim was in the middle of it, more awake and more excited than anyone, chewing on a twig that he would presently use as a toothbrush; for he borrowed right- and left-handedly from...
I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.
I have joyfully done much evil in my life to those who have wished me evil (General Maximus)