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

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

A tale from which pieces have been raked out is like a fire that has been poked. One does not know the operation has been performed, but everyone feels the effect.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose love would follow me still, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were drowned in the deepest sea, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! I know whose tears would come down to me, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine! If I were damned of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, Mother o’ mine, O mother o’ mine!

The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool.

I have no gift of words, but I speak the truth.

I am by nature a dealer in words, and words are the most powerful drug known to humanity.