The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

The Impartial Friend: Death, the only immortal who treats us all alike, whose pity and whose peace and whose refuge are for all--the soiled and the pure, the rich and the poor, the loved and the unloved.

Do right and you will be conspicuous.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

The political and commercial morals of the United States are not merely food for laughter, they are an entire banquet.

Each person is born to one possession which outvalues all his others-his last breath.