You are about as happy as you make up your mind to be.

Oh Death where is thy sting! It has none. But life has.

In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

It is so unsatisfactory to read a noble passage and have no one you love at hand to share the happiness with you. And it is unsatisfactory to read to one's self anyhow - for the uttered voice so heightens the expression.

There is no use in your walking five miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

If you can't get a compliment any other way, pay yourself one.