The only way love punishes in by suffering.

Nothing can be more hurtful to an honourable man than that he should be accused of bad faith.

I do not like the word tolerance, but could not think of a better one. Tolerance implies a gratuitous assumption of the inferiority of other faiths to one

My heart rebels against any foreigner imposing on my country the peace which is here called Pax-Britannica.

National education to be truly national must reflect the national condition for the time being.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Leo Tolstoy's life has been devoted to replacing the method of violence for removing tyranny or securing reform by the method of non­resistance to evil. He would meet hatred expressed in violence by love expressed in self­suffering.