Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts. God will see that you do not want society.

Especially the transcendental philosophy needs the leaven of humor to render it light and digestible.

Spring. March fans it, April christens it, and May puts on its jacket and trousers.

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

Say what you have to say, not what you ought. Any truth is better than make-believe.

Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge of the forest, the dead and unsightly limbs of the pine, which she had concealed with green banks of verdure, are exposed to sight.

Men have become the tools of their tools.