The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Let all who build beware The load, the shock, the pressure Material can bear. So, when the buckled girder Lets down the grinding span, The blame of loss, or murder, Is laid upon the man. Not on the Stuff - the Man!

I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.

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

As surely as Water will wet us, as surely as Fire will burn, The Gods of the Copybook Headings with terror and slaughter return!

Not getting what you want either means you don't want it enough, or you have been dealing too long with the price you have to pay.