Believe the best of everybody.

Those who only know England know not England.

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

Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.

We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.

It thrilled through him when he first felt the keel answer to his hand on the spokes and slide over the long hollows as the foresail scythed back and forth against the blue sky.

You must learn to forgive a man when he's in love. He's always a nuisance.