The ignorant are afraid to betray surprise or admiration...they think it ill manners.

...the administration of the law can never go lax where every individual sees to it that it grows not lax in his own case, or in cases which fall under his eyes.

When ill luck begins, it does not come in sprinkles, but in showers.

A powerful agent is the right word: it lights the reader's way and makes it plain.

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.

The two Testaments are interesting, each in its own way. The Old one gives us a picture of these people's Deity as he was before he got religion, the other one gives us a picture of him as he appeared afterward.

Well enough for old folks to rise early, because they have done so many mean things all their lives they can't sleep anyhow.