In their hearts women think that it is men's business to earn money and theirs to spend it.

I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.

There is a wide difference between the original thinker and the merely learned man.

Faith is like love, it cannot be forced. Therefore it is a dangerous operation if an attempt be made to introduce or bind it by state regulations; for, as the attempt to force love begets hatred, so also to compel religious belief produces rank unbelief.

There is no more mistaken path to happiness than worldliness, revelry, high life.

Our civilized world is nothing but a great masquerade. You encounter knights, parsons, soldiers, doctors, lawyers, priests, philosophers and a thousand more: but they are not what they appear - they are merely masks... Usually, as I say, there is nothing but industrialists, businessmen and speculators concealed behind all these masks.