Of all the superstitions that affect India, none is so great as that a knowledge of the English language is necessary for imbibing ideas of liberty and developing accuracy to thought.

If you have faith in the cause and the means and in God, the hot sun will be cool for you.

There is no road towards peace; peace is the road

The real seat of taste was not the tongue but the mind

If it had not been for the Christians that I have known I might have been a Christian.

Mankind is one, seeing that all are equally subject to the moral law. All men are equal in God's eyes.

Power invariably elects to go into the hands of the strong. That strength may be physical or of the heart or, if we do not fight shy of the word, of the spirit. Strength of the heart connotes soul-force. Let it be remembered that physical force is transitory, even as the body is transitory. But the power of spirit is permanent even as the spirit is everlasting.