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

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.

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

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.

When the first baby laughed for the first time, its laugh broke into a thousand pieces, and they all went skipping about, and that was the beginning of fairies.

Man can destroy a mountain within a day, but a Man cannot build a mountain in a single day or the rest of his days

Am I shallow? she asks the mirror. Yes, I am shallow. The sun shines on the ripples where it's shallow. Deep is too dark.

Speaking to the subject is the most overrated thing in journalism.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

The pleasure of the true dreamer does not lie in the substance of the dream, but in this: that there things happen without any interference from his side, and altogether outside his control.

Every mother I've ever met, pretty much without exception, is doing the best job she can ever do.

If we have to go through a mental exercise, yes or no, every time we are faced with a tough decision, we will continue to have trouble with living what we supposedly believe.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

The round of a passionate man's life is in contracting debts in his passion, which his virtue obliges him to pay. He spends his time in outrage and acknowledgment, injury and reparation.