In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I maintain that to everybody who cares for ….

I spend my happiest hours in reading Vedantic books. They are to me like the light of the morning, like the pure air of the mountains - so simple, so….

The Vedic literature opens to us a chapter in what has been called the education of the human race to which we can find no parallel anywhere else..

It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool..

Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child..

The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place..

A man is not learned because he talks much; he who is patient, free from hatred and fear, he is called learned..

Without a belief in personal immortality, religion surely is like an arch resting on one pillar, like a bridge ending in an abyss..

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up..

Language is the Rubicon that divides man from beast..

Hunger is the worst of diseases, the body the greatest of pains; if one knows this truly, that is Nirv?na, the highest happiness..

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last on….

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world..

The translation of the Veda will hereafter tell to a great extent on the fate of India and on the growth of millions of souls in that country. It is ….

Victory breeds hatred, for the conquered is unhappy..

Whatever sphere of the human mind you may select for your special study, whether it be language, or religion, or mythology, or philosophy, whether it….

As a tree, even though it has been cut down, is firm so long as its root is safe, and grows again, thus, unless the feeders of thirst are destroyed, ….

The person who knows only one religion does not know any religion..

A flower cannot blossom without sunshine, and man cannot live without love..

In order to discover truth, we must be truthful ourselves, and must welcome those who point out our errors as heartily as those who approve and confi….

Even in heavenly pleasures he finds no satisfaction, the disciple who is fully awakened delights only in the destruction of all desires..