Occupation: Writer Birth: December 30, 1865 Death: January 18, 1936
If you do not get what you want, it is a sure sign that you did not seriously want it..
There's no jealousy in the grave..
Satan himself can't save a woman who wears thirty-shilling corsets under a thirty-guinea costume..
One cannot resist the lure of Africa..
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….
For undemocratic reasons and for motives not of State, they arrive at their conclusions, largely inarticulate. Being void of self-expression they con….
The glory of the garden lies in more than meets the eye..
Cities and Thrones and Powers Stand in Time's eye, Almost as long as flowers, Which daily die.
There are gems of wondrous brightness Ofttimes lying at our feet, And we pass them, walking thoughtless, Down the busy, crowded street. If we knew, o….
As I pass through my incarnations in every age and race, I make my proper prostrations to the Gods of the Market-Place. Peering through reverent fing….
They will come back, come back again, As long as the red earth rolls. He never wasted a leaf or a tree. Do you think he would squander souls?.
God help us for we knew the worst too young..
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old..
Of course the Man was wild too. He was dreadfully wild. He didn't even begin to be tame till he met the Woman, and she told him that she did not like….
I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages..
Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heartstrings crack..
Go softly by that river side Or when you would depart, You'll find its every winding tied; And knotted round your heart..
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..
Doctors have been exposed-you always will be exposed-to the attacks of those persons who consider their own undisciplined emotions more important tha….
I have eaten your bread and salt. I have drunk your water and wine. The deaths ye died I have watched beside And the lives ye led were mine..
Men, not children or servants, tempered and taught to the end; Cleansed of servile panic, slow to dread or despise, Humble because of knowledge, migh….