In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad-Gita, in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.

be yourself- not your idea of what you think somebody else's idea of yourself should be.

Our own country furnishes antiquities as ancient and durable, and as useful, as any; rocks at least as well covered with lichens,and a soil which, if it is virgin, is but virgin mould, the very dust of nature. What if we cannot read Rome or Greece, Etruria or Carthage, or Egypt or Babylon, on these; are our cliffs bare?

The Ethiopian cannot change his skin nor the leopard his spots.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

To say that God has given a man many and great talents frequently means that he has brought his heavens down within reach of his hands.

Knowledge does not come to us in details, but in flashes of light from heaven.