Apparently one of the most uncertain things in the world is the funeral of a religion.

I have stopped smoking now and then, for a few months at a time, but it was not on principle, it was only to show off; it was to pulverize those critics who said I was a slave to my habits and couldn't break my bonds.

Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

Chastity - you can carry it too far.

When the doctrine of allegiance to party can utterly up-end a man's moral constitution and make a temporary fool of him besides, what excuse are you going to offer for preaching it, teaching it, extending it, perpetuating it? Shall you say, the best good of the country demands allegiance to party? Shall you also say it demands that a man kick his truth and his conscience into the gutter, and become a mouthing lunatic, besides?

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

God has put something noble and good into every heart His hand created.