I literally believe in the possibility of a Sudhanva smiling away whilst he was being drowned in boiling oil.

As the elephant is powerless to think in the terms of the ant, in spite of the best intentions in the world, even so is the Englishman powerless to think in the terms of, or legislate for, the Indian.

Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.

I have shut my mind against nothing and I am a friend of Great Britain. I always have been. I have no axe to grind.

A labourer cannot sit at the table and write, but a man who has worked at the table all his life can certainly take to physical labour.

I own no property and yet I feel that I am perhaps the richest man in the world.

Faith is not a delicate flower which would wither away under the slightest stormy weather.