Any foolish boy can stamp on a beetle, but all the professors in the world cannot make a beetle.

They tell us that suicide is the greatest piece of cowardice... that suicide is wrong; when it is quite obvious that there is nothing in the world to which every man has a more unassailable title than to his own life and person.

Vedas are the most rewarding and the most elevating book which can be possible in the world.

There is no doubt that life is given us, not to be enjoyed, but to be overcome; to be got over.

Music is the answer to the mystery of life. The most profound of all the arts, It expresses the deepest thoughts of life.

To expect a man to retain everything that he has ever read is like expecting him to carry about in his body everything that he has ever eaten.

Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.