If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they are gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you except the will which says to them: 'Hold on!'

A boy of to-day is affected by every change of tone and gust of opinion, so that he lies even when he desires to speak the truth.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

It takes a great deal of Christianity to wipe out uncivilized Eastern instincts, such as falling in love at first sight.

Now India is a place beyond all others where one must not take things too seriously—the midday sun always excepted.

All the money in the world is no use to a man or his country if he spends it as fast as he makes it. All he has left is his bills and the reputation for being a fool.

A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.