That stern and rockbound coast felt like an amateur when it saw how grim the puritans that landed on it were.

There was once a Hindu sage, who sat down on the banks of the Ganges and thought for seventy years about the millennium. Just as he arrived at the solution and was putting it into verse, a mosquito stung him and he forgot it again at once.

Punctuality is one of the cardinal business virtues: always insist on it in your subordinates.

The chief obstacle to the progress of the human race is the human race.

Too many creatures both insects and humans estimate their own value by the amount of minor irritation they are able to cause to greater personalities than themselves.

Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.

Nearly every night before I go to bed I ask myself, "Have I vibrated in tune with the Infinite today, or have I failed?