A statesman cannot afford to be a moralist.

It is one of the most culpable oversights of nature that virtue and beauty so often come in separate packages.

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

The trouble with most people is that they think with their hopes or fears or wishes rather than with their minds.

Does history warrant the conclusion that religion is necessary to morality - that a natural ethic is too weak to withstand the savagery that lurks under civilization and emerges in our dreams, crimes and wars? ... There is no significant example in history, before our time, of a society successfully maintaining moral life without the aid of religion.

If we have never been amazed by the very fact that we exist, we are squandering the greatest fact of all.