The African is my brother but he is my younger brother by several centuries.

Nature compels us to recognize the fact of mutual dependence, each life necessarily helping the other lives who are linked to it. In the very fibers of our being, we bear within ourselves the fact of the solidarity of life.

Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. Extract from 'Memories of childhood and youth.'

Most men are scantily nourished on a modicum of happiness and a number of empty thoughts which life lays on their plates. They are kept in the road of life through stern necessity by elemental duties which they cannot avoid.

The disastrous feature of our civilization is that it is far more developed materially than spiritually. Its balance is disturbed.

Set a great example. Someone may imitate it.

For those who sincerely seek the truth should not fear the outcome.