The birth of science rang the death-knell of an arbitrary and constantly interposing Supreme Power.

After a study of some forty years and more of the great religions of the world, I find none so perfect, none so scientific, none so philosophic, and none so spiritual as the great religion known by the name of Hinduism. The more you know it, the more you will love it; the more you try to understand it, the more deeply you will value it

Never yet was a nation born that did not begin in the spirit, pass to the heart and the mind, and then take an outer form in the world of men.

The position of the Atheist is a clear and reasonable one. I know nothing about ‘God’ and therefore I do not believe in Him or in it; what you tell me about your God is self‐contradictory, and therefore incredible. I do not deny ‘God,’ which is an unknown tongue to me; I do deny your God, who is an impossibility. I am without God.

The Buddha over and over again spoke clearly and definitely on post-mortem states - as in his conversation with Vasetta.

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.