Intolerance is evidence of impotence.

The sot drinks, and is drunken: the coward drinks not, and shivers: the wise man, brave and free, drinks, and gives glory to the Most High God.

Religion itself becomes offensively monotonous. On every point of vantage are pagodas -- stupid stalagmites of stagnant piety.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky.

When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one's physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.

Ordinary morality is only for ordinary people.