Birth: July 28, 1809 Death: March 2, 1895
Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his discipl….
The wise man of Miletus thus declared the first of things is water.
All things to all men only fools will tell, Truth profits none but those that use it well..
The highest art is always the most religious; and the greatest artist is always a devout man. A scoffing Raphael or Michael Angelo is not conceivable..
Rocking on a lazy billow With roaming eyes, Cushioned on a dreamy pillow, Thou art now wise. Wake the power within thee slumbering, Trim th….
Converse with men makes sharp the glittering wit, But God to man doth speak in solitude..
Brahma is the great Creator, Life a mystic drama; Heaven, and Earth, and living Nature Are but masks of Brahma..
All powers, all laws, are but the fair Embodied thoughts of God..
Order is the law of all intelligible existence..
A fair face without a fair soul is like a glass eye that shines and sees nothing..
Wine is the drink of the gods, milk the drink of babes, tea the drink of women, and water the drink of beasts..