We have not all had the good fortune to be ladies. We have not all been generals, or poets, or statesmen; but when the toast works down to the babies, we stand on common ground.

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. You can "already know for sure" things that could actually impede progress. Always be on the lookout for the things you did not know, that you did not know. Secondly, work on strengthening personal belief that a particular will be achieved regardless of any adversity that may show up, or evidence to the contrary.

No sane man can be happy, for to him life is real, and he sees what a fearful thing it is.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

Out of the public schools comes the greatness of the nation.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

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