"Not in our make-up, to be sure - not in the pose which is preceded by the tantaras of a trumpet - do..." — Ameen Rihani

To copy Nature? A boy with a camera can do that. To get the spirit of Nature? A woodman or a shepherd can follow the trail of the whistling wind to hoarded sunshine in distant wolds. But to interpret Nature and inform it with a human personality that rises above it, invokes the divine in it, is the work of genius.

Bolshevism may be Marxian in theory, but it is Hulagoesque in practice. It may be of European descent, but it is Oriental in tradition. Oriental in mood. Oriental in temperament.

Revolution applies a local anaesthetic to one class of society and operates on the other.

In a true democracy is the cure for most of our social and political ills, but a few of them must remain to keep us going.