4 Quotes by Henry Steel Olcott

He found that the pleasures of the eye, the ear, the taste, touch and smell are fleeting and deceptive: he who gives value to them brings only disappointment and bitter sorrow upon himself.

Physiologically speaking, man’s body is completely changed every seven years.

118. Q. Why does ignorance cause suffering? A. Because it makes us prize what is not worth prizing, grieve when we should not grieve, consider real what is not real but only illusionary, and pass our lives in the pursuit of worthless objects, neglecting what is in reality most valuable.

Everything in the world of Matter is unreal; the only reality is in the world of Spirit.