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.

We're all islands shouting lies to each other across seas of misunderstanding.

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

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.

You sometimes see a woman who would have made a Joan of Arc in another century and climate, threshing herself to pieces over all the mean worry of housekeeping.

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