Every human act can be disguised with a coating of gilt.

When truth is discovered by someone else, it loses something of its attractiveness.

Surrender one hair, and you'll end up beardless.

Sometimes I feel quite distinctly that what is inside me is not all of me. There is something else, sublime, quite indestructible, some tiny fragment of the Universal spirit.Don't you feel that?

Surely people should eventually cease to be surprised at anything? And yet they continue to be.

There are defendants whom the judges are afraid of.

In our age, when technology is gaining control over life, when material well-being is considered the most important goal, when the influence of religion has been weakened everywhere in the world, a special responsibility lies upon the writer.