Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

Inherited ideas are a curious thing, and interesting to observe and examine.

In writing, I shall always confine myself strictly to the truth, except when it is attended with inconvenience.

I've seen many troubles in my time, only half of which ever came true.

We had a sunset of a very fine sort. The vast plain of the sea was marked off in bands of sharply-contrasted colors: great stretches of dark blue, others of purple, others of polished bronze; the billowy mountains showed all sorts of dainty browns and greens, blues and purples and blacks, and the rounded velvety backs of certain of them made one want to stroke them, as one would the sleek back of a cat.

Never argue with people who buy ink by the gallon.