Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear-not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward it is not a compliment to say it is brave; it is merely a loose application of the word. Consider the flea! - incomparably the bravest of all the creatures of God, if ignorance of fear were courage.

Do something everyday that you don't want to do.

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

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.

All right, then, I'll go to hell.

In German, a young lady has no sex, but a turnip has

Better a broken promise than none at all.