“Pleasant it is for the Little Tin GodsWhen great Jove nods;But Little Tin Gods make their little mistakesIn missing the hour when great Jove wakes.”

“What is this," said the leopard,"that is so 'sclusively dark, and yet so full of little pieces of light?”

“Thou art of the Jungle and not of the Jungle. And I am only a black panther. But I love thee, Little Brother.”

“It is not a good fancy,' said the llama. 'What profit to kill men?'Very little - as I know; but if evil men were not now and then slain it would not be a good world for weaponless dreamers.”

“There is no sin so great as ignorance. Remember this.”

“Now whither does THIS trail lead?" Kaa's voice was gentler. "Not a moon since there was a Manling with a knife threw stones at my head and called me bad little tree-cat names, because I lay asleep in the open.”

“Yet there be certain times in a young man’s life, when, through great sorrow or sin, all the boy in him is burnt and seared away so that he passes at one step to the more sorrowful state of manhood”