The dearest events are summer-rain.

Once you make a decision, the universe conspires to make it happen.

Character is higher than intellect... A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

The advantage in education is always with those children who slip up into life without being objects of notice.

The heroic soul does not sell its justice and its nobleness. It does not ask to dine nicely and to sleep warm. The essence of greatness is the perception that virtue is enough. Poverty is its ornament. It does not need plenty, and can very well abide its loss.

In the great books of India, an empire spoke to us, nothing small or unworthy, but large, serene, consistent, the voice of an old intelligence, which in another age and climate had pondered and thus disposed of the questions that exercise us.

Deep insight will always, like Nature, ultimate its thought in a thing.