Self Respect

When a student, after his usual excessively hard working late hours falls asleep; in the vision Neptune appears to him and offers to convey all the knowledge of the universe to him. But the student refuses and asks the boon of being provided with oil for his midnight...

Socrates

Was made to drink a substitute for coffee for preaching “The Gods are on high Olympus, Let them stay there; but you and I are here.” * * * * Man is the noblest work of Art – but nobody ever said so but man. Troubles are not really troubles unless you...

For Lecture on Sin

Truth for authority and no authority for Truth. Children will naturally behave if the inevitable results of their doing are clearly shown to them. But when we force them to do or not to do certain things on our authority, we insult the higher nature of the rational...