Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul.

Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

No man has an appreciation so various that his judgment is good upon all varieties of literary work.

Now he found out a new thing--namely, that to promise not to do a thing is the surest way in the world to make a body want to go and do that very thing.

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn't it be?--it is the same the angels breathe.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.