Those things which now most engage the attention of men, as politics and the daily routine, are, it is true, vital functions of human society, but should be unconsciously performed, like the corresponding functions of the physical body.

The largest pond is as sensitive to atmospheric changes as the globule of mercury in its tube.

Time hides no treasures; we want not its then, but its now.

I do not know where to find in any literature, whether ancient or modern, any adequate account of that Nature with which I am acquainted.

The mass never comes up to the standard of its best member, but on the contrary degrades itself to a level with the lowest.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.