In my age, as in my youth, night brings me many a deep remorse. I realize that from the cradle up I have been like the rest of the race - never quite sane in the night.

It was a place of sin, loose women, whiskey and gambling. It was no place for a good Presbyterian, and I did not long remain one.

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.

It's better to be an optimist who is sometimes wrong than a pessimist who is always right

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.