It is wiser to find out than to suppose.

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it. Hero: Person in a book who does things which he can't and girl marries him for it.

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

[On Dutch flat poetry]: It is too smooth and blubbery; it reads like butter-milk gurgling from a jug.

Nothing is so ignorant as a man's left hand, except a lady's watch.

There's always something about your success that displeases even your best friends.