I learned from my illiterate but wise mother that all rights to be deserved and preserved came from duty well done. Thus the very right to live accrues to us only when we do the duty of citizenship of the world. From this one fundamental statement, perhaps it is easy enough to define the duties of Man and Woman and correlate every right to some corresponding duty to be first performed. Every other right can be shown to be a usurpation hardly worth fighting for.

Power is of two kinds: one is obtained by the fear of punishment and the other by acts of love.

With my meager knowledge of my own religion I do not want to belong to any religious body

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.

I think it would be an excellent idea.

When a man fasts, it is not the gallons of water he drinks that sustains him, but God.

God is conscience. He is even the atheism of the atheist.