For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

A child who passes through many hands in turn, can never be well brought up. At every change he makes a secret comparison, which continually tends to lessen his respect for those who control him, and with it their authority over him. If once he thinks there are grown-up people with no more sense than children the authority of age is destroyed and his education is ruined.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Taste is, so to speak, the microscope of the judgment.

Anticipation and Hope are born twins.

The only moral lesson which is suited for a child--the most important lesson for every time of life--is this: 'Never hurt anybody.

I feel an indescribable ecstasy and delirium in melting, as it were, into the system of being, in identifying myself with the whole of nature.