Do not undervalue the headache. While it is at its sharpest it seems a bad investment; but when relief begins, the unexpired remainder is worth $4 a minute.

No one is willing to acknowledge a fault in himself when a more agreeable motive can be found for the estrangement of his acquaintances.

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

I was born modest, but it didn't last.

Let me make the superstitions of a nation and I care not who makes its laws or its songs either.

Often a quite assified remark becomes sanctified by use and petrified by custom; it is then a permanency, its term of activity a geologic period.