Solitude is a catalyst for innovation

The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers.

It is the best thing to blame ourselves when people cannot get on well with us. Boundless charity necessarily includes all or it ceases to be boundless. We must be strict with ourselves and lenient with our neighbors. For we know not their difficulties and what they overcome.

I suffer snakes to be killed in the ashram when it is impossible to catch them and put them out of harm's way.

To see the universal and all-pervading Spirit of Truth face to face, one must be able to love the meanest of all creation as oneself.

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

The control of the palate is a valuable aid for the control of the mind.