Never mind your happiness; do your duty.

Every science begins as philosophy and ends as art; it arises in hypothesis and flows into achievement.

Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.

Drunkenness was in good repute in England till "Bloody Mary" frowned upon it; it remained popular in Germany. The French drank more stably, not being quite so cold.

Tired mothers find that spanking takes less time than reasoning and penetrates sooner to the seat of the memory.

In progressive societies the concentration[of wealth] may reach a point where the strength of number in the many poor rivals the strength of ability in the few rich; then the unstable equilibrium generates a critical situation, which history has diversely met by legislation redistributing wealth or by revolution distributing poverty.

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.