Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.
It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.