Beware of overconcern for money, or position, or glory. Someday you will meet a man who cares for none of these things. Then you will know how poor you are.

If you give someone more than they can do, they will do it. If you give them only what they can do, they will do nothing.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

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

When your Daemon is in charge, do not try to think consciously. Drift, wait, and obey.

And the end of the fight is tombstone white with the name of the late deceased, and the epitaph drear, "A Fool lies here who tried to hustle the East."

More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies.