The older we grow the greater becomes our wonder at how much ignorance one can contain without bursting one's clothes.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and therefore is not already a consummate ass. If the case be otherwise, I beg his pardon and extend to him the cordial hand of fellowship and call him brother.

The government is merely a servant―merely a temporary servant; it cannot be its prerogative to determine what is right and what is wrong, and decide who is a patriot and who isn't. Its function is to obey orders, not originate them.

For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.

A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar.

Love heightens all senses - except the common.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.