“Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think ...” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Quote

Men show their character in nothing more clearly than what they think laughable.

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

When ideas fail, words come in very handy.

There is nothing insignificant in the world. It all depends on the point of view.

Like most people who live in India, I complain about corruption, but know that I can live with corrupt men. It is the honest ones I secretly worry about.

While civilization has been improving our houses, it has not equally improved the men who are to inhabit them. It has created palaces, but it was not so easy to create noblemen and kings.

A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.

Iron till it be thoroughly heated is incapable to be wrought; so God sees good to cast some men into the furnace of affliction, and then beats them on his anvil into what frame he pleases.