It is hard enough luck being a monarch, without being a target also.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason.

How unfortunate and how narrowing a thing it is for a man to have wealth who makes a god of it instead of a servant

Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought.

I fell in love with the most cordial and sociable city in the Union.

The vast majority of the race whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind at heart and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves.