Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.

Adam was a gardener, and God, who made him, sees that half of all good gardening is done upon the knees.

Till the master of all good workmen shall set us to work anew.

If you can dream - and not make dreams your master.

There is no harm in a man's cub.

It was the forty-fathom slumber that clears the soul and eye and heart, and sends you to breakfast ravening.

I had never seen the jungle. They fed me behind bars from an iron pan till one night I felt that I was Bagheera - the Panther - and no man's plaything, and I broke the silly lock with one blow of my paw and came away; and because I had learned the ways of men, I became more terrible in the jungle than Shere Khan.