Forgiveness is the fragrance that the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

That's just the way: a person does a low-down thing, and then he don't want to take no consequences of it. Thinks as long as he can hide it, it ain't no disgrace.

I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except toward the things which were sacred to other people.

The true charm of pedestrians does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.

The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as good as Southern corn bread, and perhaps no bread in the world is quite as bad as the Northern imitation of it.