They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?

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

And that is called paying the Dane-geld; but we've proved it again and again, that if once you have paid him the Dane-geld you never get rid of the Dane.

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.

If you can wait, and not be tired by waiting ... if you can dream, and not make dreams your master; if you can think, and not make thoughts your aim; if you can meet with Triumph and Disaster, and treat those two impostors just the same; ... yours is the earth and everything that's in it...

I have my own matches and sulphur, and I'll make my own hell.

If history were taught in the form of stories, it would never be forgotten.