In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita... in comparison with which... our modern world and its literature seems puny and trivial.
I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude.
I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
The man who goes alone can start today but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.
There is danger that we lose sight of what our friend is absolutely, while considering what she is to us alone.
No face which we can give to a matter will stead us so well at last as the truth. This alone wears well.
They can do without architecture who have no olives nor wines in the cellar.
I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours.
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
I have learned, that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours.
Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.
Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.
All men are children, and of one family. The same tale sends them all to bed, and wakes them in the morning.
When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest times, and to the latest.
Friends... they cherish one another's hopes. They are kind to one another's dreams.
True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
A man cannot be said to succeed in this life who does not satisfy one friend.
I had three chairs in my house one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.
What is human warfare but just this an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.
God reigns when we take a liberal view, when a liberal view is presented to us.
A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good be good for something.
As for doing good that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.
I have seen how the foundations of the world are laid, and I have not the least doubt that it will stand a good while.
There is more of good nature than of good sense at the bottom of most marriages.