If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don't deal in lies. Or being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise.

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

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

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

At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.

Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need.