[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.

Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.

Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven, Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

Now faith is being sure of what we believe in and certain of what we do not see. (Heb. 11:1)

If tears were liquor, I'd have drunk myself sick.

Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal.

Great things have small beginnings.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.

When we read, even if the characters are tragic or sad or disturbing, these are our brothers and sisters in the human family.

No need to be sentimental to mourn the loss of Paradise.

The threat of a new ice age must now stand alongside nuclear war as a likely source of wholesale death and misery for mankind.

The day is always his, who works in it with serenity and great aims.