When all is said and done, the one sole condition that makes spiritual happiness and preserves it is the absence of doubt.

All war must be just the killing of strangers against whom you feel no personal animosity; strangers whom, in other circumstances, you would help if you found them in trouble, and who would help you if you needed it.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

We are all alike, on the inside.

Worrying is paying interest on a debt you might not even owe.

Trial by jury is the palladium of our liberties. I do not know what a palladium is, but I am sure it is a good thing!