Books think for me. I can read anything which I call a book.

Cards are war, in disguise of a sport.

All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

The greatest pleasure I know, is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

I always arrive late at the office, but I make up for it by leaving early.

How some they have died, and some they have left me, And some are taken from me; all are departed; All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

I have had playmates, I have had companions; In my days of childhood, in my joyful school days - All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.

A poor relation—is the most irrelevant thing in nature.

How convalescence shrinks a man back to his pristine stature! where is now the space, which he occupied so lately, in his own, in the family's eye?

For God's sake (I never was more serious) don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

Why did I do such-and-such a thing?' is all very well. But what about 'How otherwise could I have done it?'.

Love everyone, including yourself. This is real sadhana.

The only people who cannot change are the most wise and the most stupid.

Truth, like love, is never absolute.

The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.

A picture is not a window...an abstract refers to no reality but its own.

How else would God speak to me, if not through my imagination?

The worst effect of tutelage is that it negates self-discipline, and therefore people suddenly released from it are almost bound to make fools of themselves.

I've been a free man.

In bad times and in good I've never lost my sense of zest for life.