” A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it. “
” The right of property holds good in all society, but in the West, ethics invade the personal life in a manner unknown to the East, so much so that the Oriental stands agape at our folly, knowing well that every man brings different instincts and ideas into the world with him. “
” Some men spend their lives watching bees and ants, noting down the habits of these insects, my pleasure is to watch the human mind, noting how unselfish instincts rise to the surface and sink back again, making way for selfish instincts, each equally necessary, for the world would perish were it to become entirely selfish or entirely unselfish. “
” An idea is so impersonal, it is yours today and the whole world’s tomorrow. “
” Isn’t it strange that religious prejudices – beliefs none possess, not even the saints, so they have lamented – divide brothers and sons from their fathers. You see, I except mothers and sisters, the female is not a religious animal. If she were, the world would have ceased long ago. “
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