I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

War knows no law except that of might.

Violence is bound sooner or later to exhaust itself but peace cannot issue out of such exhaustion.

Steam becomes a mighty power only when it allows itself to be imprisoned in a strong little reservoir, produces tremendous motion and carries huge weights by permitting itself a tiny and measured outlet.

He who atones for sins never calculates; he pours out the whole essence of his contrite heart.

We cry for cow protection in the name of religion, but we refuse protection to the human cow in the shape of the girl-widow.

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.