Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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.

If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.