The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operations of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish. It is in a way the most civilised of all the cardinals, and its use is only forced on us by the needs of cultivated modes of thought.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Thus the negative perception is the triumph of consciousness.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

An unflinching determination to take the whole evidence into account is the only method of preservation against the fluctuating extremes of fashionable opinion.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.

The vastest knowledge of today cannot transcend the buddhi of the Rishis in ancient India; and science in its most advanced stage now is closer to Vedanta than ever before.