“As we advance in life we learn the limits of our abilities.”

“Human improvement is from within outward.”

“Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain therefore to treat them as if they were equal.”

“Philosophy goes no further than probabilities and in every assertion keeps a doubt in reserve.”

“Of all the evil spirits abroad at this hour in the world insincerity is the most dangerous.”

“We enter the world alone we leave it alone.”

“I have little use for religion as it is practiced, or for astrology, or for belief in witchcraft or omens of good or ill-luck. I think they all stem from some insufficiency in mens minds, perhaps f...”

“It is only the innocent mind which knows what love is, and the innocent mind can live in the world which is not innocent.”

“So if you can look at all things without allowing pleasure to creep in - at a face, a bird, the colour of a sari, the beauty of a sheet of water shimmering in the sun, or anything that gives deligh...”