I could forgive the boy, now, if he'd committed a million sins!

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

The master minds of all nations, in all ages, have sprung in affluent multitude from the mass of the nations, and from the mass of the nation only-not from its privileged classes.

I do not like an injurious lie, except when it injures somebody else.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Every man is a moon and has a side which he turns toward nobody: you have to slip around behind it if you want to see it.

When in doubt tell the truth.