If you would be chaste, you must be temperate.

One may be drunk with love without being any nearer to finding his mate.

Whenever I have read any part of the Vedas, I have felt that some unearthly and unknown light illuminated me. In the great teaching of the Vedas, there is no touch of sectarianism. It is of all ages, climbs, and nationalities and is the royal road for the attainment of the Great Knowledge. When I read it, I feel that I am under the spangled heavens of a summer night.

For in the wood these golden days Some leaf obeys its Maker's call. And through their hollow aisles it plays With delicate touch the prelude of the Fall.

In my short experience of human life, the outward obstacles, if there were any such, have not been living men, but the institutions of the dead.

I am resolved that I will not through humility become the devil's attorney. I will endeavor to speak a good word for the truth.

Almost any man knows how to earn money, but not one in a million knows how to spend it.