We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there.

I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.

There is this trouble about special providences namely, there is so often a doubt as to which party was intended to be the beneficiary. In the case of the children, the bears, and the prophet, the bears got more real satisfaction out of the episode than the prophet did, because they got the children.

I believe I have no prejudices whatsoever. All I need to know is that a man is a member of the human race. That's bad enough for me.

Sometimes my feelings are so hot that I have to take the pen and put them out on paper to keep them from setting me afire inside; then all that ink and labor are wasted because I can't print the results

Architects cannot teach nature anything.