An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

Slang in a woman's mouth is not obscene, it only sounds so.

If there is one thing that is really cheerful in the world, it is cheerfulness. I have noticed it often. And I have noticed that when a man is right down cheerful, he is seldom unhappy for the time being. Such is the nature of man.

It is the will of God that we must have critics and missionaries and congressmen and humorists, and we must bear the burden

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped, but an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment.

Man never creates, he only recombines the lines and colors of his own existance.