Rudyard Kipling

"An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy."

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

"Down to Gehenna, or up to the Throne, He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"He travels the fastest who travels alone."

"Heaven grant us patience with a man in love."

"I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble."

"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

"When you're wounded and left on Afghanistan's plains, and the women come out to cut up what remains, jest roll to your rifle and blow out your brains and go to your gawd like a soldier."

"Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind."