Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection.

I was a-trembling, because I'd got to decide, forever, betwixt two things, and I knowed 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.

Not until you become a stranger to yourself will you be able to make acquaintance with the Friend.

You meet people who forget you. You forget people you meet. But sometimes you meet those people you can't forget. Those are your 'friends

Whatever you have lived, you can write & by hard work & a genuine apprenticeship, you can learn to write well; but what you have not lived you cannot write, you can only pretend to write it.

It is a solemn thought: dead, the noblest man's meat is inferior to pork.