The German people are an orderly, vain, deeply sentimental and rather insensitive people. They seem to feel at their best when they are singing in chorus, saluting or obeying orders.

We are kept keen on the grindstone of pain and necessity.

The crying sounded even louder out of doors. It was as if all the pain in the world had found a voice

There is space in its philosophy for everyone which is one reason why India is a home to every single religion in the world.

The serious people who took him seriously never felt quite sure of his deportment; they were somehow aware that trusting their reputations for judgment with him was like furnishing a nursery with egg-shell china.

Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.

...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.