Sri Chinmoy

There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.

It is not length of life, but depth of life.

The rich man is always sold to the institution which makes him rich. Absolutely speaking, the more money, the less virtue.

It’s much better to do good in a way that no one knows anything about it.

Women tell men things that they are not likely to find out for themselves.

Look before you leap for as you sow, ye are like to reap.

Wise men are not wise at all hours, and will speak five times from their taste or their humor, to once from their reason.

I have never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude. We are for the most part more lonely when we go abroad among men than when we stay in our chambers. A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

When the water of a place is bad it is safest to drink none that has not been filtered through either the berry of a grape, or else a tub of malt. These are the most reliable filters yet invented.

Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.

Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog’s life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

If you have knowledge, let others light their candles with it.

To be innocent is to be not guilty; but to be virtuous is to overcome our evil inclinations.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

A character is like an acrostic or Alexandrian stanza; read it forward, backward, or across, it still spells the same thing.