The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the appearance of a thing for reality, and prefer trifling matters to the most important.

Will power is to the mind like a strong blind man who carries on his shoulders a lame man who can see.

A major difficulty in translation is that a word in one language seldom has a precise equivalent in another one.

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 !