If you can keep your wits about you while all others are losing theirs, and blaming you. The world will be yours and everything in it, what's more, you'll be a man, my son.
An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.
God could not be everywhere, and therefore he made mothers.
Gardens are not made by singing 'Oh, how beautiful,' and sitting in the shade.
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours.
Asia is not going to be civilized after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.
For the sin they do by two and two they must pay for one by one.
All the people like us are we, and everyone else is They.
A woman's guess is much more accurate than a man's certainty.
A woman is only a woman, but a good cigar is a smoke.
A people always ends by resembling its shadow.
A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
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?"
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.