Virtue lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence of din and noise.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Truth and non-violence are not cloistered virtues but applicable as much in the forum and the legislatures as in the market place.

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

There is no such thing as slow freedom. Freedom is like a birth. Till we are fully free we are slaves. All birth takes place in a moment.

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

To a true artist only that face is beautiful which, quite apart from its exterior, shines with the truth within the soul.