The Vedanta recognizes no sin it only recognizes error. And the greatest error, says the Vedanta is to say that you are weak, that you are a sinner, a miserable creature, and that you have no power and you cannot do this and that.

We think too much and feel too little.

Whiskey! Never tasted such beastly stuff in my life! In a civilized country they drink wine

I'd sooner be called a successful crook than a destitute monarch.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

To me all palaces are preposterous, a tasteless, dreary expression of ostentation.