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

There are nine-and-sixty ways of constructing tribal lays, And every single one of them is right.

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

Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like living in his wild ways. She picked out a nice dry Cave, instead of a heap of wet leaves, to lie down in; and she strewed clean sand on the floor; and she lit a nice fire of wood at the back of the Cave; and she hung a dried wild-horse skin, tail down, across the opening of the Cave; and she said, 'Wipe your feet, dear, when you come in, and now we'll keep house.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

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