Energy rests upon love; and come as it will, there's no forcing it.

India, which is the nursery of the great faiths of the world

I'm getting old, that's the thing! What's in me now won't be there anymore.

Woman is more impressionable than man. Therefore in the Golden Age they were better than men. Now they are worse.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

What are wanted ...are not Constitutions and Revolutions, nor all sorts of Conferences and Congresses, nor the many ingenious devices for submarine navigation and aerial navigation, nor powerful explosives, nor all sorts of conveniences to add to the enjoyment of the rich, ruling classes... but one thing only is needful: the knowledge of the simple and clear truth ...that for our life one law is valid - the law of love, which brings the highest happiness to every individual as well as to all mankind.

If I had any doubts at all about the justice of my dislike for Shakespeare, that doubt vanished completely. What a crude, immoral,vulgar, and senseless work Hamlet is. The whole thing is based on pagan vengeance; the only aim is to gather together as many effects as possible; there is no rhyme or reason about it.