[The Bible is] a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology.

That is the way of the scientist. He will spend thirty years in building up a mountain range of facts with the intent to prove a certain theory; then he is so happy with his achievement that as a rule he overlooks the main chief fact of all-that all his accumulation proves an entirely different thing.

Every generalization is dangerous, especially this one.

isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.

Is a person's public and private opinion the same? It is thought there have been instances.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.