So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

It is the will of God that we must have critics, and missionaries, and Congressmen, and humorists, and we must bear the burden. Meantime, I seem to have been drifting into criticism myself. But that is nothing. At the worst, criticism is nothing more than a crime, and I am not unused to that.

The first time a student realizes that a little learning is a dangerous thing is when he brings home a poor report card.

The very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

The thing for us to do is just to do our duty, and not worry about whether anybody sees us do it or not.

Memories which someday will become all beautiful when the last annoyance that encumbers them shall have faded out of our minds.