Those people.... early stricken of God, intellectually - the departmental interpreters of the laws in Washington... can always be depended on to take any reasonably good law and interpret the common sense all out of it.

Independence-is loyalty to one's best self and principles, and this is often disloyalty to the general idols and fetishes.

There are many scapegoats for our sins, but the most popular one is Providence.

Wheresoever she was, there was Eden.

God rewards gamblers and fools. The crucial thing, when you win, is knowing which you were.

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.

Human beings seem to be a poor invention. If they are the noblest works of God where is the ignoblest?