My Hindu instinct tells me that all religions are more or less true.
The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.
Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.
The most practical, the most dignified way of going on in the world is to take people at their word, when you have no positive reason to the contrary.
Democracy will break under the strain of apron strings. It can exist only on trust.
The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.