In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

Why do you sit there looking like an envelope without any address on it?

Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all.

the size of a misfortune is not determinable by an outsider’s measurement of it but only by the measurements applied to it by the person specially affected by it.

Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

I'm pushing 60 years of age...and that's enough exercise for me.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.