If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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.

Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

English is the easiest language to speak badly.

Youth, what a pity to waste it on the young.

Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.