I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

All I say is, kings is kings, and you got to make allowances. Take them all around, they're a mighty ornery lot. It's the way they're raised.

The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself.

The country is the real thing, the substantial thing, the eternal thing, it is the thing to watch over and care for and be loyal to; institutions are extraneous. . . .

Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

If you should rear a duck in the heart of the Sahara, no doubt it would swim if you brought it to the Nile.

India has two million gods, and worships them all. In religion all other countries are paupers; India is the only millionaire.