A man is a hero, not because he is braver than anyone else, but because he is brave for 10 minutes longer..

If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you find that prudent people do not commend you. Be ….

We write from aspiration and antagonism, as well as from experience. We paint those qualities which we do not posses..

We are impressed and even daunted by the immense Universe to be explored. "What we know is a point to what we do not know.".

Writing should be the settlement of dew on the leaf..

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that wi….

At times the whole world seems to be in conspiracy to importune you with emphatic trifles..

Every person has his or her own vocation-talent is the call..

Why should we be cowed by the name of Action?..

The three practical rules, then, which I have to offer, are, --/ Never read a book that is not a year old./ Never read any but the famed books./ Neve….

He is a dull observer whose experience has not taught him the reality and force of magic, as well as of chemistry..

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.[What is a sorrow? A feeling whose benefits have not yet been discovered].

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress.

A good intention clothes itself with sudden power. When a god wishes to ride, any chip or pebble will bud and shoot out winged feet, and serve him fo….

With consistency a great soul has simply nothing to do. He may as well concern himself with his shadow on the wall..

Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn..

Why should we not have a first-hand and immediate experience of God?.

The persons who constitute the natural aristocracy, are not found in the actual aristocracy, or, only on its edge; as the chemicalenergy of the spect….

Line in Nature is not found; Unit and Universe are round..

All violence, all that is dreary and repels, is not power, but the absence of power..

Fate, then, is a name for facts not yet passed under the fire of thought; for causes which are unpenetrated..