I would rather have my ignorance than another man's knowledge, because I have so much of it.

Let us consider that we are all insane. It will explain us to each other. It will unriddle many riddles

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

If husbands could realize what large returns of profit may be gotten out of a wife by a small word of praise paid over the counter when the market is just right, they would bring matters around the way they wish them much oftener than they usually do. Arguments are unsafe with wives, because they examine them; but they do not examine compliments. One can pass upon a wife a compliment that is three-fourths base

The waves most washed me off the raft sometimes, but I hadn't any clothes on, and didn't mind.

You know that kind of quiver that trembles around through you when you are seeing something so strange and enchanting and wonderful that it is just a fearful joy to be alive and look at it; and you know how you gaze, and your lips turn dry and your breath comes short, but you wouldn't be anywhere but there, not for the world.

Let us swear while we may, for in heaven it will not be allowed