How empty is theory in the presence of fact!

There is no accounting for human beings.

Many people have the reasoning facility, but no one uses it in religious matters.

I would much prefer to suffer from the clean incision of an honest lancet than from a sweetened poison.

I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. That immensely enlarges the audience.

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.

When the world is made to be idiot-proof, the world will become overpopulated with idiots.