It is not enough to be busy. So are the ants. The question is: What are we busy about?

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.

All men are children, and of one family.

Good religious men, with the love of men in their hearts, and the means to pay their toll in their pockets.

Duty is one and invariable; it requires no impossibilities, nor can it ever be disregarded with impunity.

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

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.