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.

[T]he moralists of Europe [have] pretended that beasts have no rights... a doctrine revolting/gross/barbarous... on which a native of the Asiatic uplands could not look without righteous horror.

For it is a matter of daily observation that people take the greatest pleasure in that which satisfies their vanity; and vanity cannot be satisfied without comparison with others.

Each day is a little life.

I owe what is best in my own development to the impression made by Kant's works, the sacred writings of the Hindus, and Plato.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.

The heavy armor becomes the light dress of childhood; the pain is brief, the joy unending.