Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

You boast of spending a tenth part of your income in charity; may be you should spend the nine tenths so, and done with it.

A man may grow rich in Turkey even, if he will be in all respects a good subject of the Turkish government.

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

It is so rare to meet with a man outdoors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands. Behind every man's busy-ness there should be a level of undisturbed serenity and industry, as within the reef encircling a coral isle there is always an expanse of still water, where the depositions are going on which will finally raise it above the surface.

Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived.

In what concerns you much, do not think that you have companions: know that you are alone in the world.