"Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was--like eating an egg without salt."

"Take up the White Man's burden - / And reap his old reward: / The blame of those ye better, / The hate of those ye guard."

"Youth had been a habit of hers for so long, that she could not part with it"

"When 'Omer smote 'is bloomin' lyre, / He'd 'eard men sing by land an' sea; / An' what he thought 'e might require, / 'E went an' took - the same as me!"

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

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

"You just don't know how to use the English language."

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

"For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions -- largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they confide their views to none; but sometimes in a smoking room, one learns why things were done."

"`Confound Romance!' . . . And all unseen / Romance brought up the nine-fifteen."

"We ain't no thin red 'eroes, nor we aren't no blackguards too, But single men in barricks, most remarkable like you; An' if sometimes our conduck isn't all your fancy paints, Why single men in barricks don't grow into plaster saints"

"The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!"

"Call a truce, then, to our labors -- let us feast with friends and neighbors, and be merry as the custom of our caste; for if ''faint and forced the laughter,'' and if sadness follow after, we are richer by one mocking Christmas past."

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

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

"But a fool must follow his natural bent / (Even as you and I!)."

"There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed at morn; and here come tired youths and maids that feign to love or sin in tones like rusty razor blades to tunes like smitten tin."

"But remember please, the Law by which we live, we are not built to comprehend a lie, we can neither love nor pity nor forgive. If you make a slip in handling us you die."

"If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son praising Allah: The kid was ordained to be sold"

"Ave you 'eard o' the Widow at Windsor / With a hairy gold crown on 'er 'ead?"

"All we have of freedom -- all we use or know -- this our fathers bought for us, long and long ago."

"Youth had been a habit of hers for so long that she could not part with it."

"Never praise a sister to a sister in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears"

"`This man', said M'Turk, with conviction, `is the Gadarene Swine,'"

"The toad beneath the harrow knows / Exactly where each tooth-point goes; / The butterfly upon the road / Preaches contentment to that toad."

"King Solomon drew merchantmen, / Because of his desire / For peacocks, apes and ivory, / From Tarshish unto Tyre."

"We know that the tail must wag the dog, for the horse is drawn by the cart; / But the Devil whoops, as he whooped of old: `It's clever, but is it Art?'"

"Your new-caught, sullen peoples / Half devil and half child."

"But, through the shift of mood and mood, Mine ancient humor saves him whole The cynic devil in his blood That bids him mock his hurrying soul; That bids him flout the Law he makes, That bids him make the Law he flouts, Till, dazed by many doubts, h"

"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?"

"Back to the army again, sergeant, / Back to the army again, / Out o' the cold an' the rain."

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

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

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

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

"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."

"After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food."

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

"Through the Jungle very softly flits a shadow and a sigh - / He is Fear, O Little Hunter, he is Fear!"

"If any question why we died, Tell them, because our fathers lied"

"This our fathers bought for us, long and long ago"

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

"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!'"

"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."

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

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

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

"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!"

"The heart of a man to the heart of a maid - Light of my tents, be fleet - Morning awaits at the end of the world, And the world is all at our feet."

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