Tis Better to Sit there and LOOK the fool, than to open your mouth and prove it.

One frequently only finds out how really beautiful a really beautiful woman is after considerable acquaintance with her; and the rule applies to Niagara Falls, to majestic mountains, and to mosques-especially to mosques.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

As a rule, we go about with masks, we go about looking honest, and we are able to conceal ourselves all through the day.

History doesn't repeat itself; it rhymes.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificiant by and by. The Alps and the glaciers together are able to take every bit of conceit out of a man and reduce his self-importance to zero if he will only remain within the influence of their sublime presence long enough to give it a fair and reasonable chance to do its work.

Man is kind enough when he is not excited by religion