A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Italy and London are the only places where I don't feel to exist on sufferance.

But nothing in India is identifiable, the mere asking of a question causes it to disappear or to merge in something else.

Nonsense and beauty have close connections.

Ideas are fatal to caste.

A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which Society would register the quick motions of man.