 I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble. |
| Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old. |
| A people always ends by resembling its shadow. |
| If I were dammed of body and soul, I know whose prayers would make me whole, mother o' mine o mother o' mine. |
| Often and often afterwards, the beloved Aunt would ask me why I had never told anyone how I was being treated. Children tell little more than animals, for what comes to them they accept as eternally established. |
| 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!' |
| An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy. |
| If I were hanged on the highest hill, Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! I know whose love would follow me still Mother o' mine, O mother o' mine! |
| The silliest woman can manage a clever man; but it needs a very clever woman to manage a fool. |
| He travels the fastest who travels alone. |
| I have struck a city - a real city - and they call it Chicago... I urgently desire never to see it again. It is inhabited by savages. |
| Never look backwards or you'll fall down the stairs. |
| Everyone is more or less mad on one point. |
| For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one. |
| And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, till the Devil whispered behind the leaves "It's pretty, but is it Art?" |
| Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. |
| All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They. |
