One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

The principle of give and take is the principle of diplomacy - give one and take ten

Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed down-stairs one step at a time.

All publishers are Columbuses. The successful author is their America. The reflection that they-like Columbus-didn't discover what they expected to discover, and didn't discover what they started out to discover, doesn't trouble them. All they remember is that they discovered America; they forget that they started out to discover some patch or corner of India.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.

A distinguished man should be as particular about his last words as he is about his last breath. He should write them out on a slip of paper and take the judgment of his friends on them. He should never leave such a thing to the last hour of his life, and trust to an intellectual spurt at the last moment to enable him to say something smart with his latest gasp and launch into eternity with grandeur.

Travel is fatal to bigotry.