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.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.