So far as my experience goes, travelers generally exaggerate the difficulties of the way. Like most evil, the difficulty is imaginary; for what's the hurry?

We are double-edged blades, and every time we whet our virtue the return stroke straps our vice. Where is the skillful swordsman who can give clean wounds, and not rip up his work with the other edge?

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.

. . . I was rich, if not in money, in sunny hours and summer days. . . .

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.