I would beseech you not only to be pure beyond suspicion but I would ask you to combine with stainless purity, great wisdom and great ability.

Every good movement passes through five stages, indifference, ridicule, abuse, repression, and respect.

Knowledge and devotion, to be true, have to stand the test of renunciation of the fruits of action.

Life is one indivisible whole.

What better book can there be than the book of humanity.

No sacrifice is worth the name unless it is a joy. Sacrifice and a long face go ill together. Sacrifice is 'making sacred'. He must be a poor specimen of humanity who is in need of sympathy for his sacrifice.

People engaged in a war do not lose temper over matters which affect the fortunes of war.