Our life is a loan received from death with sleep as the daily interest on this loan.

If there is anything in the world that can really be called a man's property, it is surely that which is the result of his mental activity.

Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don't believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.

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

The highest, most varied and lasting pleasures are those of the mind.

To attain something desired is to discover how vain it is; and…though we live all our lives in expectation of better things, we often at the same time long regretfully for what is past. The present, on the other hand, is regarded as something quite temporary and serving only as the road to our goal. That is why most men discover when they look back on their life that they have the whole time been living ad interim, and are surprised to see that which they let go by so unregarded and unenjoyed was precisely their life, was precisely in expectation of which they lived.

It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.