...mastery of the art and spirit of the Germanic language enables a man to travel all day in one sentence without changing cars.

What work I have done I have done because it has been play. If it had been work I shouldn't have done it.

The public is the only critic whose judgment is worth anything at all.

I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

The inability to forget is far more devastating than the inability to remember.

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

Benaras is older than history, older than tradition, older even than legend, and looks twice as old as all of them put together!