A person who has during all time maintained the imposing position of spiritual head of four-fifths of the human race, and political head of the whole of it, must be granted the possession of executive abilities of the loftiest order.

A reputable lawyer will advise you to keep out of the law, make the best of a foolish bargain, and not get caught again.

There isn't a Parallel of Latitude but thinks it would have been the Equator if it had had its rights.

Every man is a moon; he has a side no one sees.

Too much is just enough.

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable, drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.