Human life, like all inferior goods, is covered on the outside with a false glitter; what suffers always conceals itself.

A man's face as a rule says more, and more interesting things, than his mouth, for it is a compendium of everything his mouth will ever say, in that it is the monogram of all this man's thoughts and aspirations.

The word of man is the most durable of all material.

Necessity is the constant scourge of the lower classes, ennui of the higher ones.

I believe that when death closes our eyes we shall awaken to a light, of which our sunlight is but the shadow.

In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life, it will be the solace of my death.

A man of business will often deceive you without the slightest scruple, but he will absolutely refuse to commit a theft.