The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far through the jungle, manling. But now go hence quickly with thy friends. Go and sleep, for the moon sets and what follows it is not well that thou shouldst see.

What stands if freedom fall?

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine.

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me.

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

For it's "guns this" and "guns that," and "chuck 'em out, the brutes," But they're the "Savior of our loved ones" when the thugs begin to loot.