A rose will smell as sweet by any other name, but it must be the rose of liberty that I want and not the artificial product.

There is an indefinable mysterious Power that pervades everything.

It's more important to put the own heart in the prayer than to put other's words with nothing of the own heart.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

It is the duty of every cultured man or woman to read sympathetically the scriptures of the world. If we are to respect others' religions as we would have them respect our own, a friendly study of the world's religions is a sacred duty.

What is Truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the "voice within" tells you. All that I can in true humility present to you is that Truth is not to be found by anybody who has not got an abundant sense of humility. If you would swim on the bosom of the ocean of Truth you must reduce yourself to zero.

It is my unmistakable belief that not a blade of grass moves but by the divine will.