Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

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.

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.