Happiness for me is largely a matter of digestion.

No man is inherently respectable, but all women are by nature.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading.

Not until we see the richness of the Hindu mind and its essential spirituality can we understand India

I like spring, but it is too young. I like summer, but it is too proud. So I like best of all autumn, because its leaves are a little yellow, its tone mellower, its colours richer, and it is tinged a little with sorrow and a premonition of death. Its golden richness speaks not of the innocence of spring, nor of the power of summer, but of the mellowness and kindly wisdom of approaching age. It knows the limitations of life and is content.

If there is anything we are serious about, it is neither religion nor learning, but food.