However much I may sympathise with and admire worthy motives, I am an uncompromising opponent of violent methods even to serve the noblest of causes.

My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self-respect and liberty.

Independence of my conception means nothing less than the realization of the "Kingdom of God" within you and on this earth.

Carrying arms for the removal of the Arms Act can never fall under any scheme of nonviolence.

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Civilization is that mode of conduct which points out to man the path of duty. Performance of duty and observance of morality are convertible terms. To observe morality is to attain mastery over our mind and our passions. So doing, we know ourselves.