That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

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.

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.