Occupation: Writer Birth: December 30, 1865 Death: January 18, 1936
More men are killed by overwork than the importance of the world justifies..
It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and….
If a man brings a good mind to what he reads he may become, as it were, the spiritual descendant to some extent of great men, and this link, this spi….
Take everything you like seriously, except yourselves..
...he will be our friend for always and always and always..
Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid..
Our England is a garden, and such gardens are not made By singing 'Oh how wonderful' and sitting in the shade, While better men than we go out, and….
The python dropped his head lightly for a moment on Mowgli's shoulders. "A brave heart and a courteous tongue," said he. "They shall carry thee far t….
Brother, thy tail hangs down behind..
Take up the White Man's burden -- send forth the best ye breed -- go, bind your sons to exile to serve your captives need..
You perceive, do you not, that our national fairy tales reflect the inmost desires of the Briton and the Gaul?.
One half of my head, from the top of my skull to the cleft of my jaw, hammers, bangs, sizzles while the other half, serene and content, looks on at t….
They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road….
I've a neater, sweeter maiden in a cleaner, greener land!.
Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?.
The motto of all the mongoose family is, "Run and find out," and Rikki-tikki was a true mongoose..
If any Question why We Died Tell them because our Father's Lied..
Be slow to judge for we know little of what has been done and nothing of what has been resisted..
The white moth to the closing vine, The bee to the open clover, And the Gypsy blood to the Gypsy blood Ever the wide world over..
Four things greater than all things are Women and horses and power and War..
Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too much assorted vice or too much drink..