While doing work if the mind continues to be active let it be so, but there must be at the same time a capacity for silence.

To be free from all egoistic motive, careful of truth in speech and action, void of self-will and self-assertion, watchful in all things, is the condition for being a flawless servant.

Safety lies in tending towards our highest and not in resting content with an inferior potentiality..... To rest in or follow after an inferior potentiality may seem safe, rational, comfortable, easy, but it ends badly, in some futility or in a mere circling down the abyss or in a stagnant morass. Our right and natural road is towards the summits.

What men call knowledge, is the reasoned acceptance of false appearances. Wisdom looks behind the veil and sees.

There are all kinds of people, and in the attempt to build up a solidarity among them, defects of each one affect all the others.

Man in the world's life works out the dreams of God.

What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn.