I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

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.

Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.

A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.