All sins are committed in secrecy. The moment we realize that God witnesses even our thoughts, we shall be free.

All the four stages in a man's life are devised by the seers in Hinduism for imposing discipline and self-restraint.

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.

It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

There is as much need for a change of heart among the Hindus and Mussalmans as there is among the British, before a proper settlement is arrived at.

No reform is possible unless some of the educated and the rich voluntarily accept the status of the poor, travel third, refuse to enjoy the amenities denied to the poor and, instead of taking avoidable hardships, discourtesies and injustice as a matter of course, fight for their removal.