Death is the starlit strip between the companionship of yesterday and the reunion of tomorrow.

When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

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

Customs do not concern themselves with right or wrong or reason. But they have to be obeyed; one reasons all around them until he is tired, but he must not transgress them, it is sternly forbidden.

I was an arden Hayes man, but that was natural, for I was pretty young at the time, I have since convinced myself that the political opinioins of a nation are of next to no value, in any case, but that what little rag of value they posess is to be found among the old, rather than among the young.

Children have but little charity for one another's defects

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.