My kind of loyalty was loyalty to one's country, not to its institutions or its office-holders.

I am trying to get the hang of this new fangled writing machine, but I am not making a shining success of it. However, this is the first attempt I have ever made & yet I perceive I shall soon & easily acquire a fine facility in its use. ... The machine has several virtues. I believe it will print faster than I can write. One may lean back in his chair & work it. It piles an awful stack of words on one page. It don't muss things or scatter ink blots around. Of course it saves paper.

Such is luck! And such the treatment which honest, good perservance gets so often at the hands of unfair and malicious Nature!

I should have been glad to acquire some sort of idea of Hindu theology, ... but the difficulties were too great.

Where a blood relation sobs, an intimate friend should choke up, a distant acquaintance should sigh, a stranger should merely fumble sympathetically with his handkerchief.

Rags, wretchedness, poverty and dirt, those signs and symbols that indicate the presence of [Muslim] rule more surely than the crescent-flag itself, abound.

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.