The essence of a vow does not consist in the difficulty of its performance but in the determination behind it unflinchingly to stick to it in the teeth of difficulties.

It is necessary first to purify the drunken and dissolute worshippers in charge of some of these temples.

Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.

One cannot reach Truth by untruthfulness. Truthful conduct alone can reach truth.

The collectors of revenue and the policeman are the only symbols by which millions in India's villages know British rule.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

A satyagrahi has no other stay but God, and he who has any other stay or depends on any other help cannot offer satyagraha.