The monument of death will outlast the memory of the dead. The Pyramids do not tell the tale which was confided to them; the living fact commemorates itself.

So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

It is not enough that we are truthful; we must cherish and carry out high purposes to be truthful about.

The music of all creatures has to do with their loves, even of toads and frogs. Is it not the same with man?

Music is perpetual, and only the hearing is intermittent.

I think that no experience which I have today comes up to, or is comparable with, the experiences of my boyhood.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.