“But perhaps there are in us forces other than mind and heart, other even than the senses - mysterious forces which take hold of us in the moments when the others are asleep; and perhaps it was such forces that Melchior had found in the depths of those pale eyes which had looked at him so timidly one evening when he had accosted the girl on the bank of the river, and had sat down beside her in the reeds - without knowing why - and had given her his hand.”

“One makes mistakes that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved. ”

“If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.”

“It is the artist's business to create sunshine when the sun fails.”

“A hero is a man who does what he can.”

“A hero is a man who does what he can.”

“A hero is a man who does what he can.”

“A hero is a man who does what he can.”

“No one ever reads a book. He reads himself through books, either to discover or to control himself.”

“The greatest book is not the one whose message engraves itself on the brain, as a telegraphic message engraves itself on the ticker-tape, but the one whose vital impact opens up other viewpoints, and from writer to reader spreads the fire that is fed by the various essences, until it becomes a vast conflagration leaping from forest to forest.”

“If a man is to shed the light of the sun upon other men, he must first of all have it within himself.”