There is no such thing as an ordinary life.

The proper office of a friend is to side with you when you are in the wrong. Nearly anybody will side with you when you are in the right.

But it was ever thus, all through my life: whenever I have diverged from custom and principle and uttered a truth, the rule has been that the hearer hadn't strength of mind enough to believe it.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

'Classic.' A book which people praise and don't read.

In early times some sufferer had to sit up with a toothache, and he put in the time inventing the German language.

For England must not fall: it would mean an inundation of Russian & German political degradations which would envelop the globe & steep it in a sort of Middle-Age night & slaverly which would last till Christ comes again - which I hope he will not do; he made trouble enough before.