With every true friendship, we build more firmly the foundations on which the peace of the whole world rests.

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

I crave to die with my hand at the spinning wheel.

Do you think I am superstitious? I am a super-atheist.

I was a coward. I used to be haunted by the fear of thieves, ghosts and serpents. I did not dare to stir out of doors at night. Darkness was a terror to me. It was almost impossible for me to sleep in the dark, as I would imagine ghosts coming from one direction, thieves from another and serpents from a third. I could not therefore bear to sleep without a light in the room.

If the circulation of blood theory could not have been discovered without vivisection, the human kind could well have done without it.

There is no doubt that our last state will be worse than our first, if we surrender our reason into somebody's keeping.