Sublime

It accounts also for the return of the virtue of politeness, for that also is a nameless thing ignored by logical codes.

the ancient and often barbaric kind of humour that goes by the name of the pun.

brevity which is the soul of wit.

Mr. Kipling, with all his merits, is the globe-trotter; he has not the patience to become part of anything.

Just to make sure that I have not been learning solely for my own benefit today, let me share with you three fine quotations I have come across, each concerned with something like the same idea – one of them is by way of payment of the usual debt so far as this letter is concerned, and the other two you are to regard as an advance on account. ‘To

Can we not do without the society of our gossips a little while under these circumstances—have our own thoughts to cheer us? Confucius says truly, “Virtue does not remain as an abandoned orphan; it must of necessity have neighbors.”

I should say he was a man with a taste for nonsense, as they call it—artistic fooling, and all that kind of thing. And I seriously believe that he has talked nonsense so much that he has half bewildered his own mind and doesn’t know the difference between sanity and insanity. He has gone round the mental world, so to speak, and found the place

“A command over our passions, and over the external senses of the body, and good acts, are declared by the Ved to be indispensable in the mind’s approximation to God.”

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.