I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.

No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.