So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

Truth is stranger than fiction-to some people, but I am measurably familiar with it.

Now is the accepted time to make your regular annual good resolutions. Next week you can begin paving hell with them as usual.

Cherimoya, the most delicious fruit known to men.

I was armed to the teeth with a pitiful little Smith & Wesson's seven-shooter, which carried a ball like a homopathic pill, and it took the whole seven to make a dose for an adult. But I thought it was grand. It appeared to me to be a dangerous weapon. It had only one fault - you could not hit anything with it.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

The ancients stole all our ideas from us.