The wise man reads both books and life itself.

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

All human happiness is sensuous happiness.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

I have a hankering to go back to the Orient and discard my necktie. Neckties strangle clear thinking.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother

India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal fables, chess, as well as in philosophy, and that she inspired Boccaccio, Goethe, Herder, Schopenhauer, Emerson, and probably also old Aesop.