I asked Tom if countries always apologized when they had done wrong, and he says: “Yes; the little ones does."

Shall we go on conferring our Civilization upon the peoples that sit in darkness, or shall we give those poor things a rest?

The slowness of one section of the world about adopting the valuable ideas of another section of it is a curious thing and unaccountable.

All saints can do miracles, but few of them can keep a hotel.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one—keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

Gratitude is a debt which usually goes on accumulating like blackmail; the more you pay, the more is exacted.

Damn the subjunctive. It brings all our writers to shame.

We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention.

Faith is believing what you know ain’t so.

The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.