Our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India.

There have been innumerable Temporary Seekers after the Truth-have you ever heard of a permanent one?

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

When whole races and peoples conspire to propagate gigantic mute lies in the interest of tyrannies and shams, why should we care anything about the trifling lies told by individuals?

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

Nevertheless we have this curious spectacle: daily the trained parrot in the pulpit gravely delivers himself of these ironies, which he has acquired at second-hand and adopted without examination, to a trained congregation which accepts them without examination, and neither the speaker nor the hearer laughs at himself. It does seem as if we ought to be humble when we are at a bench-show, and not put on airs of intellectual superiority there.

I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part of it, but I cannot accomplish it. I think there is no genuinely sentimental part to it. It is all grotesque, ghastly, horrible.