At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.
All sensible men are of the same religion, but no sensible man ever tells.
After violent emotion most people and all boys demand food.
A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.
When man has come to the Turnstiles of Night, all the creeds in the world seem to him wonderfully alike and colorless.
When a crew and a captain understand each other to the core, it takes a gale, and more than a gale, to put their ship ashore.
Well, if I am a man, a man I must become.
I worked like a horse and I ate like a hog and I slept like a dead man.
None of the Jungle People like being disturbed.
Come you back, you British soldier; come you back to Mandalay!
Let each man be judged by his deeds, I have paid my price to live with myself on the terms that I willed.
Literature is a splendid mistress, but a bad wife.
And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins, when all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins.
Once there was The People – Terror gave it birth.
The jungle speaks to me because I know how to listen.
One cannot resist the lure of Africa.
No doubt but ye are the People – absolute, strong and wise; Whatever your hear has desired ye have not withheld from your eyes. On your own heads, in your own hands, the sin and the saving lies!
One learns more from a good scholar in a rage than from a score of lucid and laborious drudges.
Who has smelled the woodsmoke at twilight, who has seen the campfire burning, who is quick to read the noises of the night?
If you can meet success and failure and treat them both as impostors, then you are a balanced man, my son.