Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Wildlife is decreasing in the jungles, but it is increasing in the towns.

Soul-force comes only through God's grace and never descends upon a man who is a slave to lust.

There is nothing but nonviolence to fall back upon for retaining our freedom, even as we had to do for gaining it.

To forget how to dig the earth and to tend the soil is to forget ourselves.

Fear has its use but cowardice has none.