Freedom is like birth. Till we are fully free, we are slaves.

Complete independence does not mean arrogant isolation or a superior disdain for all help.

All our philosophy is as dry as dust if it is not immediately translated into some act of living service.

Faith alone is the sun of life.

The British power is the overlord without whom Indian princes cannot breathe.

Civility does not ...mean the mere outward gentleness of speech cultivated for the occasion, but an inborn gentleness and desire to do the opponent good.

A votary of ahimsa must cultivate the habit of unremitting toil, sleepless vigilance, ceaseless self-control.