Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

The cause of laughter is simply the sudden perception of the incongruity between a concept and the real project.

My body and my will are one.

Boredom is an evil that is not to be estimated lightly. It can come in the end to real despair. The public authority takes precautions against it everywhere, as against other universal calamities.

It takes place, by and large, with the same sort of necessity as a tree brings forth fruit, and demands of the world no more than a soil on which the individual can flourish.

The greatest intellectual capacities are only found in connection with a vehement and passionate will.

How entirely does the Upanishad breathe throughout the holy spirit of the Vedas! How is every one who by a diligent study of its Persian Latin has become familiar with that incomparable book stirred by that spirit to the very depth of his Soul !