If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.

On the road to Mandalay, Where the flyin'-fishes play, An' the dawn comes up like thunder outer; China 'crost the Bay!

The tumalt and shouting dies, The captains and the kings depart. Still stands thine ancient sacrifice, An humble and a contrite heat. Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.

And when your back stops aching and your hands begin to harden, You will find yourself a partner in the Glory of the Garden.

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

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

Never praise a sister to a sister, in the hope of your compliments reaching the proper ears.