Do good when you can, and charge when you think they will stand it.

Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At Adam, every time. We can't build a monument to a germ, but we can build one to Adam, who is in the way to turn myth in in fifty years and be entirely forgotten in two hundred. We can build a monument and save his name to the world forever, and we'll do it!

Great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

You cannot have a theory without principles. Principles is another name for prejudices.

In religion, India is the only millionaire... the One land that all men desire to see, and having seen once, by even a glimpse, would not give that glimpse for all the shows of all the rest of the globe combined.

Strange is the man who practices his religion.