God forbid that India should ever take to industrialism after the manner of the west... keeping the world in chains. If [our nation] took to similar economic exploitation, it would strip the world bare like locusts.

Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.

The greatest lessons in life, if we would but stoop and humble ourselves, we would learn not from the grown-up learned men, but from the so-called ignorant children.

Of all the evils for which man has made himself responsible, none is so degrading, so shocking, or so brutal as his abuse of the better half of humanity; to me, the female sex is not the weaker sex.

Without proper, careful organisation of the spinning wheel and khaddar, there is absolutely no civil disobedience.

Jesus never uttered a loftier or a grander truth than when he said that wisdom cometh out of the mouths of babes.

India is less manly under the British rule than she ever was before.