The best The Jungle Book quotes

The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence...

One of the beauties of Jungle Law is that punishment settles all scores. There is no nagging afterward.

The reason the beasts give among themselves is that Man is the weakest and most defenseless of all living things.

"H“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.

Now, don't be angry after you've been afraid. That's the worst kind of cowardice.

And it is I, Raksha [The Demon], who answers. The man’s cub is mine, Lungri–mine to me! He shall not be killed. He shall live to run with the Pack and to hunt with the Pack; and in the end, look you, hunter of little naked cubs–frog-eater– fish-killer–he shall hunt thee!

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

My heart is heavy with the things I do not understand.

So Mowgli went away and hunted with the four cubs in the jungle from that day on. But he was not always alone, because years afterward he became a man and married. But that is a story for grown-ups.