We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who've gone astray, Baa-aa-aa! Gentlemen-rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Bah!

As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race... and the hearts of the meanest were humbled.

Tis beauty, so to speak, nor good talk necessarily. It's just IT. Some women will stay in a man's memory if they once walked down a street.

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

He will kill mice and he will be kind to babies...but when the moon gets up and the night comes, he is the Cat that Walks by Himself.

She is intensely human, and lives to look upon life.

The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.