Any man more right than his neighbors constitutes a majority of one already.

The very austerity of the Brahmans is tempting to the devotional soul, as a more refined and nobler luxury. Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure. Their conception of creation is peaceful as a dream.

The unconsciousness of man is the consciousness of God.

We do not learn much from learned books, but from true, sincere, human books, from frank and honest biographies.

When one man has reduced a fact of the imagination to be a fact to his understanding, I foresee that all men will at length establish their lives on that basis.

Can we not do without the society of our gossip a little while, - have our own thoughts to cheer us?

The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.