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.

Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

We have done with Hope and Honour. we are lost to Love and Truth, We are dropping down the ladder rung by rung; And the measure of our torment is the measure of our youth. God help us, for we knew the worst too young!

Those who only know England know not England.

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

When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.