Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

There were no object lessons, and the studies of bookkeeping and French were pursued (but never effectually overtaken.

Hinduism is synonymous with humanism. That is its essence and its great liberating quality.

The study of Nature makes a man at last as remorseless as Nature.

Face this world. Learn its ways, watch it, be careful of too hasty guesses at its meaning. In the end you will find clues to it all.

What on earth would a man do with himself, if something did not stand in his way?

The man was running away with the rest, and selling his papers for a shilling each as he ran—a grotesque mingling of profit and panic.