Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

The merely political aspect of the land is never very cheering; men are degraded when considered as the members of a political organization.

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

As a snow-drift is formed where there is a lull in the wind, so, one would say, where there is a lull of truth, an institution springs up.

When our life ceases to be inward and private, conversation degenerates into mere gossip.

Statesmen and legislators, standing so completely within the institution, never distinctly and nakedly behold it. They speak of moving society, but they have no resting-place without it. They may be men of a certain experience and discrimination, and have no doubt invented ingenious and even useful systems, for which we sincerely thank them; but all their wit and usefulness lie within certain not very wide limits. They are wont to forget that the world is not governed by policy and expediency.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.