When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

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

If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spiritual hereditary tie, may help to just kick the beam in the right direction at a vital crisis; or may keep him from drifting through the long slack times when, so to speak, we are only fielding and no balls are coming our way.

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

Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.

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.

The masterless man . . . afflicted with the magic of the necessary words. . . . Words that may become alive and walk up and down in the hearts of the hearers.