Endless conflicts. Endless misunderstanding. All life is that. Great and little cannot understand one another.

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.

The art of ignoring is one of the accomplishments of every well-bred girl, so carefully instilled that at last she can even ignore her own thoughts and her own knowledge.

Will is stronger than fact: it can mold and overcome fact.

The history of India for many centuries had been happier, less fierce, and more dreamlike than any other history. In these favorable conditions, they built a character - meditative and peaceful and a nation of philosophers such as could nowhere have existed except in India.

It sounds plausible enough tonight, but wait until tomorrow. Wait for the common sense of the morning.

Leaders should lead as far as they can and then vanish. Their ashes should not choke the fire they have lit.