Art is evidence of our most creative moment.

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.

Difference of opinion is the one crime which kings never forgive.

The great poet makes us feel our own wealth, and then we think less of his compositions. His best communication to our mind is to teach us to despise all he has done.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

This body, full of faults, Has yet one great quality: Whatever it encounters in this temporal life depends upon one's actions.

Women, more than all, are the element and kingdom of illusion. Being fascinated, they fascinate.