Rudyard Kipling

"I have seen something of this world," she said over the trays, "and there are but two sorts of women in it — those who take the strength out of a man, and those who put it back. Once I was that one, and now I am this."

I keep six honest serving men (they taught me all i knew); Theirs names are What and Why and When And How And Where and Who.

"And the first rude sketch that the world has seen
was joy to his mighty heart,
Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves, "It's pretty, but is it art?

She read a little of it. I give her review verbatim:—"Oh, your book? It's all about those how-wid Wajahs. I didn't understand it."

Ever the wide world over, lass,
Ever the trail held true,
Over the world and under the world,
And back at the last to you.

The world is very lovely, and it's very horrible — and it doesn't care about your life or mine or anything else.

I speak now from my home and from my heart to you all; to men and women so cut off by the snows, the desert, or the sea, that only voices out of the air can reach them.

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!

If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same.

I am, by calling, a dealer in words; and words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.

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

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.

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

TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -
Wanted to know what the River knew,
Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,
For they were young, and the Thames was old
And this is the tale that River told:

A Nation spoke to a Nation,
A Queen sent word to a Throne:
‘Daughter am I in my mother's house,
But mistress in my own.
The gates are mine to open,
As the gates are mine to close,
And I set my house in order,'
Said our Lady of the Snows.