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.

Do not entertain doubts if they are not agreeable to you.

A man might well pray that he may not taboo or curse any portion of nature by being buried in it.

If there were one who lived wholly without the use of money, the State itself would hesitate to demand it of him. But the rich man--not to make any invidious comparison--is always sold to the institution which makes him rich.... Thus his moral ground is taken from under his feet.

Nothing can shock a brave man but dullness.

A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

We begin to praise when we begin to see a thing needs our assistance.