The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

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

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 !

If we were not all so interested in ourselves, life would be so uninteresting that none of us would be able to endure it.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

To gain anything we have longed for is only to discover how vain and empty it is; and even though we are always living in expectation of better things, at the same time we often repent and long to have the past back again.

Whatever torch we kindle, and whatever space it may illuminate, our horizon will always remain encircled by the depth of night.