Tiger! Tiger! What of the hunting, hunter bold? Brother, the watch was long and cold. What of the quarry ye went to kill? Brother, he crops in the jungle still. Where is the power that made your pride...
Like many other unfortunate young people, Harvey had never in all his life received a direct order—never, at least, without long, and sometimes tearful, explanations of the advantages of obedience and...
It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the...
For Kim did nothing with an immense success.
Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother.
The tumalt and shouting dies,The captains and the kings depart.Still stands thine ancient sacrifice,An humble and a contrite heat.
If you can dream - and not make dreams your master;If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim;
A rag and a bone and a hank of hair.
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.
The sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
To hear is one thing, to know is another.
What is a woman that you forsake herAnd the hearth fire and the home acreTo go with that old grey widow-maker?
Chasing silly rose leaves
Whatever he knows of his weaknesses, Private Mulvaney is wholly ignorant of his strength.
We are dead to love and honor/We are lost to hope and truth/We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung/And the measure of our horror is the measure of our youth/God help us for we knew the worst too...
There is but one task for all --One life for each to give.What stands if Freedom fall?[]
The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible--and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.
The wheel of the world swings through the same phases again and again.
Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.
It is the hardest thing in the world to frighten a mongoose, because he is eaten up from nose to tail with curiosity. The motto of all the mongoose family is Run and find out, and Rikki-tikki was a tr...