I do not wish any reward but to know I have done the right thing.

There are people who think that honesty is always the best policy. This is a superstition. There are times when the appearance of it is worth six of it.

The English are mentioned in the Bible; Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

It is strange the way the ignorant and inexperienced so often and so undeservedly succeed when the informed and the experienced fail.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

Dates are hard to remember because they consist of figures; figures are monotonously unstriking in appearance, and they don't take hold, they form no pictures, and so they give the eye no chance to help. Pictures are the thing. Pictures can make dates stick.