I should have liked to come across a large community of pines, which had never been invaded by the lumbering army.

Life isn't about finding yourself; it's about creating yourself. So live the life you imagined.

The tavern will compare favorably with the church. The church is the place where prayers and sermons are delivered, but the tavernis where they are to take effect, and if the former are good, the latter cannot be bad.

I have been as sincere a worshipper of Aurora as the Greeks.

If some are prosecuted for abusing children, others deserve to be prosecuted for maltreating the face of nature committed to their care.

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.

Shams and delusions are esteemed for soundest truths, while reality is fabulous. If men would steadily observe realities only, and not allow themselves to be deluded, life ... would be like a fairy tale and the Arabian Nights' Entertainments.