Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

The more a man lives, the more a man creates, the more a man loves and loses those whom he loves, the more does he escape from death. With every new blow that we have to bear, with every new work that we round and finish, we escape from ourselves, we escape into the work we have created, the soul we have loved, the soul that has left us.

His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

Love of my country does not demand that I shall hate and slay those noble and faithful souls who also love theirs.

Mozart was able to do what he wished in music and he never wished to so what was beyond him.