In skating over thin ice our safety is our speed.

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.

The virtues of society are the vices of the saints.

We do not count a man's years until he has nothing else to count.

If the single man plant himself indomitably on his instincts, and there abide, the huge world will come round to him. 6.

For what avail the plough or sail, Or land or life, if freedom fail?

By the rude bridge that arched the flood, Their flag to April's breeze unfurled, Here once the embattled farmers stood, And fired the shot heard round the world.

When Confucius and the Indian Scriptures were made known, no claim to monopoly of ethical wisdom could be thought of... It is only within this century [the 1800 's] that England and America discovered that their nursery tales were old German and Scandinavian stories; and now it appears that they came from India, and are therefore the property of all the nations.

[The Upanishads and the Vedas] haunt me. In them I have found eternal compensation, unfathomable power, unbroken peace.

The Indian teaching, through its clouds of legends, has yet a simple and grand religion, like a queenly countenance seen through a rich veil. It teaches to speak truth, love others, and to dispose trifles. The East is grand - and makes Europe appear the land of trifles .... all is soul and the soul is Vishnu ... cheerful and noble is the genius of this cosmogony. Hari is always gentle and serene - he translates to heaven the hunter who has accidentally shot him in his human form, he pursues his sport with boors and milkmaids at the cow pens; all his games are benevolent and he enters into flesh to relieve the burdens of the world.