Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

— Rudyard Kipling

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

— Rudyard Kipling

But that is another story.

— Rudyard Kipling

Buy a pup and your money will buy Love unflinching that cannot lie.

— Rudyard Kipling

Down to Gehenna or up to the throne He travels the fastest who travels alone.

— Rudyard Kipling

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

— Rudyard Kipling

Father Wolf looked on amazed. He had almost forgotten the days when he won Mother Wolf in fair fight from five other wolves, when she ran in the Pack and was not called The Demon for compliment’s sake. Shear Khan might have faced Father Wolf, but he could not stand up against Mother Wolf, for he knew that where he was she had all the advantage of the ground, and would fight to the death. So he backed out of the cave mouth growling...

— Rudyard Kipling

Fiction is Truth's elder sister. Obviously. No one in the world knew what truth was till someone had told a story.

— Rudyard Kipling

Fill the unforgiving minute with sixty seconds worth of distance run.

— Rudyard Kipling

For it's Tommy this an' Tommy that and "Chuck 'I'm out the brute." But it's "Savior of 'is country" when the guns begin to shoot.

— Rudyard Kipling