If it is the result of a pure love, there can be nothing sensual in marriage. Chastity is something positive, not negative. It isthe virtue of the married especially. All lusts or base pleasures must give place to loftier delights. They who meet as superior beings cannot perform the deeds of inferior ones.

When were the good and the brave ever in a majority?

What avails it that another loves you, if he does not understand you? Such love is a curse.

As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.

Philosophy, having crept clinging to the rocks so far, puts out its feelers many ways in vain.

To forget all about your mistakes adds to them perhaps.

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...