For truly it is to be noted that children's plays are not sports and should be deemed as their most serious actions.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things, to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.

And having wisdom with each studious year in meditation dwelt with learning wrought and shaped his weapon with an edge severe sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

Most people do not really want freedom because freedom involves responsibility and most people are frightened of responsibility.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission it is not a denial either.

Individual spiritual practice is the negative pole and service is the positive pole. The conjunction of both poles can alone bring success. The mind carries the divine principle (the light of love) and conveys it to all who contact it.

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

In contemplation if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts, but if he be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

The beauty of a cuckoo is in its notes that of a woman in her unalloyed devotion to her husband that of an ugly person in his scholarship and that of an ascetic in his forgiveness.

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