It's the niceties that make the difference fate gives us the hand, and we play the cards.

Talent works for money and fame; the motive which moves genius to productivity is, on the other hand, less easy to determine.

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

Solitude will be welcomed or endured or avoided, according as a man's personal value is large or small.

The old woman dies, the burden is lifted.

Vulgar people take huge delight in the faults and follies of great men.

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.