We are chameleons, and our partialities and prejudices change place with an easy and blesses facility, and we are soon wonted to the change and happy in it.

I have seen an entire family lifted out of poverty and into affluence by the simple boon of a broken leg. I have had people come to me on crutches, with tears in their eyes, to bless this beneficient institution. In all my experiences of life, I have seen nothing so seraphic as the look that comes into a freshly mutilated man's face when he feels in his vest pocket with his remaining hand and finds his accident ticket all right.

If I had more time, I would have written less.

I can teach anybody how to get what they want out of life. The problem is that I can't find anybody who can tell me what they want.

He could charm an audience an hour on a stretch without ever getting rid of an idea.

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

In my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.