Gentleman-rankers out on the spree, damned from here to Eternity.

Being kissed by a man who didn't wax his moustache was-like eating an egg without salt.

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.

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'

I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!

Savings represent much more than mere money value. They are the proof that the saver is worth something in himself. Any fool can waste; any fool can muddle; but it takes something more of a man to save and the more he saves the more of a man he makes of himself. Waste and extravagance unsettle a man's mind for every crisis; thrift, which means some form of self-restraint, steadies it.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't explain away afterwards.