My soul refuses to be satisfied so long as it is a helpless witness of a single wrong or a single misery.

Armed conspiracies against something satanic is like matching Satans against Satan.

Purity of life is the highest and truest art.

I believe that there is no prayer without fasting, and there is no real fast without prayer.

Freedom of a nation cannot be won by solitary acts of heroism though they may be of the true type, never by heroism so called.

Hinduism would not have been much of a religion if Rama had not steeled his heart against every temptation.

What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.