If the man doesn't believe as we do, we say he is a crank, and that settles it. I mean, it does nowadays, because now we can't burn him.

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions.

I thoroughly believe that any man who's got anything worthwhile to say will be heard if he only says it often enough.

Facts, or what a man believes to be facts, are always delightful - Get your facts first, and - then you can distort 'em as much as you please

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked.

The Bible is a mass of fables and traditions, mere mythology