It is the reformer who is anxious for the reform, and not society, from which he should expect nothing better than opposition, abhorrence and even mortal persecution.

Purest religion is highest expediency. Many things are lawful but they are not all expedient.

He who gives up action falls. He who gives up the reward rises. But renunciation of fruit in no way means indifference to the result.

Character alone will have real effect on the masses.

To me God is truth and love, God is ethics and morality, God is fearlessness.

To a starving man, God can only appear in the form of bread.

The primary object of non-co-operation is nowhere stated to be paralysis of the Government. The primary object is self-purification.