“At twenty the things for which one does not care a damn should, properly, be many.”

“TWENTY bridges from Tower to Kew -Wanted to know what the River knew, Twenty Bridges or twenty-two,For they were young, and the Thames was oldAnd this is the tale that River told:”

“There are few things sweeter in this world than the guileless, hotheaded,intemperate, open admiration of a junior. Even a woman inher blindest devotion does not fall into the gait of the man sheadores, tilt her bonnet to the angle at which he wears his hat, orinterlard her speech with his pet oaths.”

“I've never done any cattle-liftin', but it seems to me-e-e that one might just as well be stalky about a thing as not.”

“Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.”

“Many wear the robes, but few walk the Way.”

“but why should I waste wisdom on a river-turtle?”