Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man.

While everything around me is ever changing, ever dying, there is underlying that change a living power that is changeless, that holds all together, that creates, dissolves and recreates.... For I can see in the midst of death, life persists, in the midst of untruth, truth persists, in the midst of darkness light persists.

Ours has not been unadulterated nonviolence in thought, word and deed.

Imitation is the sincerest flattery.

Blaming the wolf would not help the sheep much. The sheep must learn not to fall in the clutches of the wolf.

Truth should be the very breath of our life. When once this state in the pilgrim's progress is reached, all other rules of correct living will come without any effort, and obedience to them will be instinctive.

Hinduism does not rest on the authority of one book or one prophet, nor does it posses a common creed like the Kalma.