Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

Hinduism is a living organism liable to growth and decay subject to the laws of Nature. One and indivisible at the root, it has grown into a vast tree with innumerable branches. The changes in the season affect it. It has its autumn and its summer, its winter and its spring. It is, and is not, based on scriptures. It does not derive its authority from one book. Non violence has found the highest expression and application in Hinduism.

Mere mental, that is, intellectual labour, is for the soul and has its own satisfaction.

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be happy.

The saving of labour of the individual should be the object and honest humanitarian considerations, and not greed, the motive.

You are no Satyagrahi if you remain silent or passive spectators while your enemy is being done to death.

In the dictionary of the seeker of truth there is no such thing as being "not successful." He is or should be an irrepressible optimist because of his immovable faith in the ultimate victory of Truth, which is God.