“If it is ones lot to be cast among fools, one must learn foolishness.”

A weakened mind always sees everything through a black veil. The soul makes its own horizons; your soul is dark, which is why you see such a cloudy sky.

I do not often laugh, sir, as you may perceive by the air of my countenance; but nevertheless, I retain the privilege of laughing when I please.

In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Business? It’s quite simple; it’s other people’s money.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

I’m sure you’re very nice, but you’d be even nicer if you went away.

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.

Remember that what has once been done may be done again.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

Wait and hope!

Women are never so strong as after their defeat.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

God is always the last resource.

True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

One should remain as a witness to whatever happens, adopting the attitude, ‘Let whatever strange things that happens happen, let us see!’ This should be one’s practice. Nothing happens by accident in the divine scheme of things.

The search “Who am I” ends in the annihilation of the illusory “I” and the Self which remains over will be as clear as a gooseberry in the palm of one’s hand.

Under whatever name or form we worship It, It leads us on to knowledge of the nameless, formless Absolute. Yet, to see one’s true Self in the Absolute, to subside into It and be one with “It, this is the true Knowledge of the Truth.

Knowing the Self, God is known.

Grace is within you. Grace is your self. Grace is not something to be acquired from others. If it is external, it is useless. All that is necessary is to know its existence is in you. You are never out of its operation.

Suffering is the way for Realization of God.

Surrender is to give oneself up to the original cause of one’s being.

Unless one is happy, one cannot bestow happiness on others.