If you wish to learn which sex is the more intelligent, watch any man in relation with any woman, and see which of the two will twist the other around her finger. |
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order. |
India was the mother 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 Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity, mother through village communities of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all. |
Inquiry is fatal to certainty |
It came to me that reform should begin at home, and since that day I have not had time to remake the world. |
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. |
Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul. |
Man became free when he recognized that he was subject to law |
Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions |
Most of us spend too much time on the last twenty-four hours and too little on the last six thousand years |
Music was as vital as the church edifice itself, more deeply stirring than all the glory of glass or stone. Many a stoic soul, doubtful of the creed, was melted by the music, and fell on his knees before the mystery that no words could speak. |
Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal. |
No animal ever invented anything so bad as drunkeness - or so good as drink. |
No man who is in a hurry is quite civilized |
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say |