Life should be great rather than long.

Equality may be a fiction but nonetheless one must accept it as a governing principle.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Law and Order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.

For an individual as well as a society, there is a gulf between merely living and living worthily. To fight in a battle and live in glory is one mode. To beat a retreat, to surrender and to live the life of a captive is also a mode of survival.

A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar

For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.