The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out, the conservative adopt.

In India, 'cold weather' is merely a conventional phrase and has come into use through the necessity of having some way to distinguish between weather which will melt a brass door-knob and weather which will only make it mushy.

To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.

A little starvation can really do more for the average sick man than can the best medicines and the best doctors.

There is not a single human characteristic that can be safely labeled as American.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment