It’s not the good that die young, it’s the lucky.

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.

The reason most people don't go to church is because they've already been.

I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

And what is a man without energy? Nothing - nothing at all.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

I saw men whom thirty years had changed but slightly; but their wives had grown old. These were good women; it is very wearing to be good.