If you want something and don't get it, there are only two reasons. You either really didn't want it, or you tried to bargain over the price.

They are fools who kiss and tell'-- Wisely has the poet sung. Man may hold all sorts of posts If he'll only hold his tongue.

Nations have passed away and left no traces, And history gives the naked cause of it - One single simple reason in all cases; They fell because their peoples were not fit.

Any fool can waste, any fool can muddle, but it takes something of a man to save, and the more he saves the more of a man does it make of him.

Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

Bite on the bullet, old man, and don't let them think you're afraid.

Cat said, 'I am not a friend, and I am not a Servant. I am the Cat who walks by himself, and I wish to come into your Cave.'