Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

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

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.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Our religions will never at any time take root; the ancient wisdom of the human race will not be supplanted by the events in Galilee. On the contrary, Indian wisdom flows back to Europe, and will produce a fundamental change in our knowledge and thought.

Education perverts the mind since we are directly opposing the natural development of our mind by obtaining ideas first and observations last. This is why so few men of learning have such sound common sense as is quite common among the illiterate.