Tolerance grows only when faith loses certainty; certainty is murderous.

To rulers religion, like almost everything else, is a tool of power.

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

Never put a man in the wrong. He will hold it against you forever.

Civilization is not inherited; it has to be learned and earned by each generation anew; if the transmission should be interrupted for one century, civilization would die, and we should be savages again.

by and large the poor have the same impulses as the rich, with only less opportunity or skill to implement them

If I were rich I would have many books, and I would pamper myself with bindings bright to the eye and soft to the touch, paper generously opaque, and type such as men designed when printing was very young. I would dress my gods in leather and gold, and burn candles of worship before them at night, and string their names like beads on a string.