Nothing in nature is exhausted in its first use...In God, every end is converted into a new means.

Fear God, and where you go men shall think they walk in hallowed cathedrals.

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.

The history of the genesis or the old mythology repeats itself in the experience of every child. He too is a demon or god thrown into a particular chaos, where he strives ever to lead things from disorder into order.

In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.

He is only rich who owns the day. There is no king, rich man, fairy, or demon who possesses such power as that.

The universe is the externisation of the soul. Wherever the life is, that bursts into appearance around it. Our science is sensual, and therefore superficial. The earth, and the heavenly bodies, physics, and chemistry, we sensually treat, as if they were self-existent; but these are the retinue of that Being we have.