The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

A good supply of resignation is of the first importance in providing for the journey of life.

Most men are so thoroughly subjective that nothing really interests them but themselves.

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

The person who writes for fools is always sure of a large audience.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes.

For an author to write as he speaks is just as reprehensible as the opposite fault, to speak as he writes; for this gives a pedantic effect to what he says, and at the same time makes him hardly intelligible.