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

The conviction that the world and man is something that had better not have been, is of a kind to fill us with indulgence towards one another.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

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 !

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

To become indignant at [people's] conduct is as foolish as to be angry with a stone because it rolls into your path. And with many people the wisest thing you can do, is to resolve to make use of those whom you cannot alter.

Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.