Letter to Margaret E. Noble 11

We put all our energies to concentrate and get attached to one thing but we seldom pay any attention to the other part, the faculty of detaching ourselves at a moment’s notice from anything. Both attachment and detachment perfectly developed make a man great and happy.

Letter to Miss Mary Hale 05

My country is, as you know, the land of waters. But never did I realise before what that meant. The rivers of East Bengal are oceans of rolling fresh water, not rivers, and so long that steamers work on them for weeks.