My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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.