Wicked thoughts and worthless efforts gradually set their mark on the face, especially the eyes.

If a man sets out to hate all the miserable creatures he meets, he will not have much energy left for anything else; whereas he can despise them, one and all, with the greatest ease.

First the truth is ridiculed. Then it meets outrage. Then it is said to have been obvious all along.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

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.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Life is a task to be done. It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.