When you ascend the hill of prosperity, may you not meet a friend.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

December is the toughest month of the year. Others are July, January, September, April, November, May, March, June, October, August, and February.

Patriot: the person who can holler the loudest without knowing what he is hollering about.

Every man feels that his experience is unlike that of anybody else and therefore he should write it down-- he finds also that everybody else has thought and felt on some points precisely as he has done, and therefore he should write it down.

One day man by the slow processes of evolution shall develop into something really fine and high - some billions of years hence, say.

...there isn't often anything in Wagner opera that one would call by such a violent name as acting.