Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.

Unpopularity is a excellent salve to the conscience; it is delicious to be misunderstood.

a committee, of course, exists for the purpose of damping enthusiasms.

You can't discover one foot of clay on an idol without suspecting the other.

Sometimes I think there are two kinds of people - the autobiographists and the biographists.

Islands are gregarious animals, they decorate the ocean in conveys.

Twenty-three is said to be the prime of life by those who have reached so far and no farther. It shares this distinction with every age, from ten to three-score and ten.