Those who only know England know not England.

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

Shere Khan, the Big One, has shifted his hunting grounds. He will hunt among these hills for the next moon, so he has told me.

Yes, making mock o' uniforms that guard you while you sleep... For it's Tommy this, an' Tommy that an' Chuck him out, the brute! But it's Saviour of his country, when the guns begins to shoot!

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at so many turns and corners, that what they want in weight, they make up in number, and render it less hazardous to stand the fire of one cannon ball, than a volley composed of such a shower of bullets.

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.

But he couldn't lie if you paid him and he'd starve before he stole.