The best doctrine may become the worst, if imperfectly understood, erroneously interpreted, or superstitiously followed.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth.

The fact is remarkable, that though education in its higher degrees is popularly neglected in Siam, there is scarcely a man or woman in the empire who cannot read and write.

In how many lives there lurks a hidden romance or a hidden terror.

the night of trouble is at times so dark that the interwoven gold with which Providence relieves the woof of calamity remains undiscovered.

There is compensation in all things.

Retirement: statutory senility.

The art of war is of vital importance to the state. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected.

Is there some principal of nature which states that we never know the quality of what we have until it is gone?

Money and titles may be hereditary," she would say, "but brains are not,".

Lo, I am the most stupendous in the land at my particular profession.

Teenagers falling off skateboards - funny. Nut shots - funny. Breaking wind - funny. The world cannot change those. Those three things are columns upon which humor is built.

There were certain expectations that were assumed of me as a young black American 20th-century - then 20th-century artist.

Why, I can't help smiling at people, and speaking prettily to them. I know I'm no better than the rest of the world; but I can't help it if I'm pleasanter. It's constitutional.

Even if I'm in Japan and I don't speak Japanese and the woman facing me doesn't speak French but she's dressed in Rykiel, and she recognizes me, then we have a common language right away.

I would not dare so dishonor my Creator's name by attaching it to this filthy book.