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

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

So much blood has been shed by the Church because of an omission from the Gospel: “Ye shall be indifferent as to what your neighbor's religion is.” Not merely tolerant of it, but indifferent to it. Divinity is claimed for many religions; but no religion is great enough or divine enough to add that new law to its code.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.

A man's first duty is to his own conscience and honor; the party and country come second to that, and never first.