It is easy to see that what is best written or done by genius in the world, was no man's work but came by wide social labor, whena thousand wrought like one, sharing the same impulse.

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end.

Government has been a fossil: it should be a plant.

I dip my pen in the blackest ink, because I'm not afraid of falling into my inkpot.

It sometimes occurs that memory has a personality of its own and volunteers or refuses its information at its will, not at mine.

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.

The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.