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

Quote by Rudyard Kipling

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

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

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and...

If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and...

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago......

I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago......

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

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

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are...

I keep six honest serving men: They taught me all I knew: Their names are...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

Too much work and too much energy kill a man just as effectively as too...

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

Everyone is more or less mad on one point.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at...

Small miseries, like small debts, hit us in so many places, and meet us at...

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Buy a pup and your money will buy love unflinching.

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Politics are not my concern . . . They impressed me as a dog's life...

Gardens are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade.

Gardens are not made by singing Oh, how beautiful, and sitting in the shade.

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't...

I never made a mistake in my life; at least, never one that I couldn't...

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs.

It's clever, but is it Art?

It's clever, but is it Art?

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

Heaven grant us patience with a man in love.

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!...

If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine!...

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

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