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.

My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

Once the divinity we worshipped made itself visible and comprehensible, we crucified it.

The 100% American is 99% idiot.

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!