From every sentence deep, original and sublime thoughts arise, and the whole is pervaded by a high and holy and earnest spirit....In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. They are destined sooner or later to become the faith of the people.

The law of simplicity and naivete applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime. True brevity of expression consists in a man only sa…

Have these gentlemen of the scalpel and crucible no notion at all then that they are first and foremost men and chemists only secondly? How can you sleep sound…

Truth that is naked is the most beautiful, and the simpler its expression the deeper is the impression it makes; this is partly because it gets unobstructed ho…

I do know that there are some things that exist in this world that you just can't prove. That could be the case with God or whoever might be up there, but I do…

Her intense and pure religiousness took the form of her having equal faith in the existence of another world and in the impossibility of comprehending it in te…

I believe in one God, and no more; and I hope for happiness beyond this life.