In Hinduism we have got an admirable foot-rule to measure every shastra and every rule of conduct, and that is truth.

Just as one must learn the art of killing in the training for violence, so one must learn the art of dying in the training for nonviolence.

Purity of mind and idleness are incompatible.

Our duty is very simple and plain. We want to serve the community, and in our own humble way to serve the Empire. We believe in the righteousness of the cause, which it is our privilege to espouse. We have an abiding faith in the mercy of the Almighty God, and we have firm faith in the British Constitution. That being so, we should fail in our duty if we wrote anything with a view to hurt.

I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.

A general belief seems to prevail in the colony that the Indians are little better, if at all, than the savages or natives of Africa. Even the children are taught to believe in that manner, with the result that the Indian is being dragged down to the position of a raw Kaffir.

The commerce between India and Africa will be of ideas and services, not of the manufactured goods against raw materials after the fashion of the Western exploiters.