I wish to become rich, so that I can instruct the people and glorify honest poverty a little, like those kind hearted, fat, benevolent people do.

There are two reasons why anybody buys anything. The real reason, and the reason they give you.

You should never trust a man who has only one way to spell a word.

Therein lies the defect of revenge: it's all in the anticipation; the thing itself is a pain, not a pleasure; at least the pain is the biggest end of it.

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead.

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

when we badly want a thing, we go to hunting for good and righteous reasons for it; we give it that fine name to comfort our consciences, whereas we privately know we are only hunting for plausible ones.