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.

No one writes anything worth writing, unless he writes entirely for the sake of his subject.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed hold of the hearer’s mind without his being distracted by secondary thoughts, and partly because he feels that here he is not being corrupted or deceived by the arts of rhetoric, but that the whole effect is got from the thing itself.

The present is the only reality and the only certainty.

The life of every individual is really always a tragedy, but gone through in detail, it has the character of a comedy.

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.