We forfeit three-quarters of ourselves in order to be like other people.

Our first ideas of life are generally taken from fiction rather than fact.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

there are very few who can think, but every man wants to have an opinion; and what remains but to take it ready-made from others, instead of forming opinions for himself?

Scoundrels are always sociable.

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 !

Everybody's friend is nobody's.