Now the man on duty used to be changed from time to time. Once one of these men, without giving me the slightest warning, without even asking me to leave the footpath, pushed and kicked me into the street. I was dismayed. Before I could question him as to his behaviour, Mr Coates, who happened to be passing the spot on horseback, hailed me and said: 'Gandhi, I have seen everything. I shall gladly be your witness in court if you proceed against the man. I am very sorry you have been so rudely assaulted.'

Few men are wantonly wicked.

Our existence as embodied beings is purely momentary; what are a hundred years in eternity? But if we shatter the chains of egotism, and melt into the ocean of humanity, we share its dignity. To feel that we are something is to set up a barrier between God and ourselves; to cease feeling that we are something, is to become one with God.

Ahimsa and Truth are so intertwined that it is practically impossible to disentangle and separate them.

Yajna is not yajna if one feels it to be burdensome or annoying.

Non-co-operation is protest against an unwitting and unwilling participation in evil.

Every living faith must have within itself the power of rejuvenation if it is to live