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.

It is simple impertinence for any man, or any body of men, to begin, or to contemplate, reform of the whole world.

The person who discovered the law of love was a far greater scientist than any of our modern scientists. Only our explorations have not gone far enough and so it is not possible for everyone to see all its workings.

The safest rule of conduct is to claim kinship when we want to do service and not to insist on kinship when we want to assert a right.

The truest test of a democracy is in the ability of anyone to act as he likes, so long as he does not injure the life or property of anyone else.

When two nations are fighting, the duty of a votary of ahimsa is to stop the war.

As in laws or in war, the longest purse finally wins.