Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!

Imagination labors best in distant fields.

I found out that I was a Christian for revenue only and I could not bear the thought of that, it was so ignoble.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.

Indeed, none but the Deity can tell what is good luck and what is bad before the returns are all in.

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident.

It is a gratification to me to know that I am ignorant of art... Because people who understand art find nothing in pictures but blemishes.