Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

One thing we have endeavoured to observe most scrupulously, namely, never to depart from the strictest facts and, in dealing with the difficult questions that have arisen during the year, we hope that we have used the utmost moderation possible under the circumstances.

Human nature will find itself only when it fully realizes that to be human it has to cease to be beastly or brutal.

Mortification of the flesh has been held all the world over as a condition of spiritual progress.

The meticulous care for the rights of the least among us is the sin qua non of nonviolence.

I do not want any patronage, as I do not give any. I am a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours. I simply want to please my own conscience which is God.

He who trusts has never yet lost in the world. A suspicious man is lost to himself and the eworld.... Suspicion is of the brood of violence. Non-violence cannot but trust.