Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Oh East is East and West is West and never the twain shall meet.

Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves.

At two o'clock in the morning, if you open your window and listen, You will hear the feet of the Wind that is going to call the sun. And the trees in the Shadow rustle and the trees in the moonlight glisten, And though it is deep, dark night, you feel that the night is done.

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.

Meddling with another man's folly is always thankless work.