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As ever, Yan has done the trick for us - the quote comes from the last chapter of Something of Myself, the one entitled Working Tools.  In Tom Pinney's recent edition, it's about one third of the way down p. 127.  In the standard Macmillan edition, it's half way down p. 218.
Q. 2 - Dunno - if it's anywhere I suppose we might find it in one of Stalky's volumes of reminiscences - I'll see what i can find though I'm not v. hopeful - someone else might know, tho'.  And a look through the KJ archives might throw up something - or have you tried that already?
    Yours
    Alastair

On 19/03/2017 08:27, Yan wrote:
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Dear Philip,

About your first question: 

But John was right. Take nothing for granted if you can check it. Even
though that seem waste-work, and has nothing to do with the essentials of
things, it encourages the Daemon. There are always men who by trade or
calling know the fact or the inference that you put forth. If you are
wrong by a hair in this, they argue 'False in one thing, false in all.'
Having sinned, I know. Likewise, never play down to your public--not
because some of them do not deserve it, but because it is bad for your
hand. All your material is drawn from the lives of men. Remember, then,
what David did with the water brought to him in the heat of battle.


P> My query about rocking elephants was solved so promptly that I’m trying my luck again with two more questions.

P> 1. In Harry Ricketts’ article in the latest KJ, he says:  “Always check your references, as Kipling reminds himself and his reader in his autobiography.”
P> Now when I want to quote Kipling on this subject, I use Miss Sichcliffe, in The Dog Hervey: “ You ought always to verify your quotations.” Please can someone tell me where he said something similar in “Something of Myself.”

P> 2. What was Charles Beresford’s nickname at Westward Ho?
P> On the title page of “Schooldays with Kipling” he subtitles himself “M’Turk”, but this is an alias, not a nickname, and ‘Turkey” is supposedly derived from it. 
P> Did things in fact work the other way round? Was he nicknamed Turkey for some reason that has not come down to us and did Kipling then coin M’Turk by a sort of backwards derivation when he needed to give a surname to his character in the Stalky stories?

P> Regards – Philip Holberton