The solution to our water problems is more rain.

Yes, even I am dishonest. Not in many ways, but in some. Forty-one, I think it is.

The [Kodak is] the only witness I have encountered in my long experience that I couldn't bribe.

It is our nature to conform; it is a force which not many can successfully resist. What is its seat? The inborn requirement of self-approval.

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

Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.

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.