Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

Give me the artist who breathes it like a native, and goes about his work in it as quietly as a common man goes about his ordinary business. Mozart did so; and that is why I like him. Even if I did not, I should pretend to; for a taste in his music is a mark of caste among musicians, and should be worn, like a tall hat, by the amateur who wishes to pass for a true Brahmin.

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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