'E's all'ot sand an' ginger when alive, An''e's generally shammin' when'e's dead.

A black shadow dropped down into the circle. It was Bagheera the Black Panther, inky black all over, but with the panther markings showing up in certain lights like the pattern of watered silk. Everybody knew Bagheera, and nobody cared to cross his path, for he was as cunning as Tabaqui, as bold as the wild buffalo, and as reckless as the wounded elephant. But he had a voice as soft as wild honey dripping from a tree, and a skin softer than down.

God help us for we knew the worst too young.

Follow the dream, and always the dream, and only the dream.

One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

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