Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

The Koran does not permit Mohammedans to drink. Their natural instincts do not permit them to be moral. They say the Sultan has eight hundred wives. This almost amounts to bigamy.

Virtue has never been as respectable as money.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

You can't no more teach what you ain't learned than you can come from where you ain't been.

A man who chooses not to read is just as ignorant as a man who cannot read.

The best of us would rather be popular than right.