Know thyself' was written over the portal of the antique world. Over the portal of the new world, 'Be thyself' shall be written.

I think you are wrong, Basil, but I won't argue with you. It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

History is merely gossip

When I like people immensely I never tell their names to anyone. It is like surrendering a part of them. I have grown to love secrecy.

Anybody can sympathise with all the sufferings of the pal, nevertheless it involves an extremely great mother nature to sympathise by using a friend's achievement.

It is exactly because a man cannot do a thing that he is a proper judge of it