An adventure is something that while it's happening you wish it wasn't.

Honest poverty is a gem that even a king might be proud to call his own - but I wish to sell out

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

He gossips habitually; he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue.

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

There is nothing in either savage or civilized history that is more utterly complete, more remorselessly sweeping than the Father of Mercy´s campaign among the Midianites. The official report deals only in masses, all the virgins, all the men, all the babies. all ´creatures that breathe,´ all houses. all cities. It gives you just one vast picture ...as far as the eye can reach, of charred ruins and storm-swept desolation... Would you expect this same conscienceless God, this moral bankrupt, to become a teacher of morals, of gentleness, of meekness, of righteousness, of purity?

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.