Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

All men plume themselves on the improvement of society, and no man improves.

The Bhagavad-Gita is an empire of thought and in its philosophical teachings Krishna has all the attributes of the full-fledged montheistic deity and at the same time the attributes of the Upanisadic absolute.

A man in the view of absolute goodness, adores, with total humility. Every step downward, is a step upward. The man who renounceshimself, comes to himself.

The mark of the man of the world is absence of pretension. He does not make a speech; he takes a low business-tone, avoids all brag, is nobody, dresses plainly, promises not at all, performs much, speaks in monosyllables, hugs his fact.

Lovers should guard their strangeness. If they forgive too much, all slides into confusion and meanness.