Every moment of my life I realize that God is putting me on my trial.

My heart is drawn backwards and forwards between the spinning wheel and books.

And whilst he may not claim superiority by reason of learning, I myself must not withold that meed of homage that learning, wherever it resides, always commands.

I refuse to put the unnecessary strain of learning English upon my sisters for the sake of false pride or questionable social advantage.

What the eyes are for the outer world, fasts are for the inner.

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it.

For me popular violence is as much an obstruction in our path as the Government violence.