Man may have the most excellent judgment in all other matters, and yet go wrong in those which concern himself; because here the will comes in and deranges the intellect at once. Therefore let a man take counsel of a friend. A doctor can cure everyone but himself; if he falls ill, he sends for a colleague.

If you want to know your true opinion of someone, watch the effect produced in you by the first sight of a letter from him.

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

Always to see the general in the particular is the very foundation of genius.

A man shows his character just in the way in which he deals with trifles, for then he is off his guard.

Dissimulation is innate in woman, and almost as much a quality of the stupid as of the clever.

To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.