Perhaps it will be simplest to throw away the tags and generalize India with one all-comprehensive name, as the Land of Wonders.

To be good is noble; but to show others how to be good is nobler and no trouble.

To be great, truly great, you have to be the kind of person who makes the others around you great.

Some authorities hold that the young ought not to lie at all. That, of course, is putting it rather stronger than necessary; still, while I cannot go quite so far as that, I do maintain, and I believe I am right, that the young ought to be temperate in the use of this great art until practice and experience shall give them that confidence, elegance and precision which alone can make the accomplishment graceful and profitable.

More than two hundred death penalties are gone from the law books, but the [biblical] texts that authorised them remain.

Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

There are two times in a man's life when he should not speculate: when he can't afford it, and when he can.