If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too;!

Believe the best of everybody.

They copied all they could copy, But they couldn't copy my mind; And I left them sweatin' and stealin', A year and a half behind.

The American has no language, he has a dialect, slang, provincialism, accent and so forth

You may talk o' gin and beer When you're quartered safe out 'ere, An' you're sent to penny-fights an' Aldershot it; But when it comes to slaughter You will do your work on water, An' you'll lick the bloomin' boots of 'im that's got it.

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

Enough work to do, and strength enough to do the work.