There was never a century nor a country that was short of experts who knew the Deity's mind and were willing to reveal it.

I can speak French but I cannot understand it.

The darling mispronunciations of childhood! - dear me, there's no music that can touch it; and how one grieves when it wastes away and dissolves into correctness, knowing it will never visit his bereaved ear again.

One mustn't criticize other people on grounds where he can't stand perpendicular himself

We are always too busy for our children; we never give them the time or interest they deserve. We lavish gifts upon them; but the most precious gift, our personal association, which means so much to them, we give grudgingly.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it