"Our passions are like convulsion-fits, which, though they make us stronger for the time, leave us the weaker ever after."

"My heart always warms to people who do not come to see me, especially Americans, to whom it seems to be mor…"

"From his childhood, Narendra was introspective and loved solitude. Once when he was only nine years, he had…"

"Above all I feel that you must resign yourself to taking me as I am, that is, with the congenital quality w…"

"All problems have to be solved eventually by ONESELF, and that's where all your lovely John Donne stuff tur…"

"Try as I might, I could never feel any great affection for a man who so much resembled a Baked Alaska – swe…"

"I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a…"