Be careless in your dress if you must, but keep a tidy soul.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

Don't look at the world with your hands in your pockets. To write about it you have to reach out and touch it.

No one is sane, straight along, year in and year out, and we all know it. Our insanities are of varying sorts, and express themselves in varying forms-fortunately harmless forms as a rule.