I should be sorry to think it was the publishers themselves they got up this entire little flutter to enable them to unload a book that was taking too much room in their cellars, but you can never tell what a publisher will do. I have been one myself.

The Indian may seem poor to we rich Westerners but in matters of the spirit it is we who are the paupers and they who are millionaires.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

The poetry is all in the anticipation, for there is none in reality.

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.

Human Beings are the only animals that blush, or need to.

What a lie it is to call this a free country, where none but the unworthy and undeserving may swear.