Knowledge gained through experience is far superior and many times more useful than bookish knowledge.

If we develop the force of will, we shall find that we do not need the force of arms.

If one has no affection for a person or a system, one should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence.

I am the only one, whom you may find it hard to get rid of, for I have always counted myself as a woman.

Man and his deed are two distinct things. Whereas a good deed should call forth approbation and a wicked deed dis-approbation, the doer of the deed, whether good or wicked always deserves respect or pity as the case may be. Hate the sin and not the sinner is a precept which though easy enough to understand is rarely practised, and that is why the poison of hatred spreads in the world.

Without devotion, action and knowledge are cold and dry and many even become shackles.

I shall content myself with merely declaring my firm conviction that, for the seeker who would live in fear of God and who would see Him face to face, restraint in diet both as to quantity and quality is as essential as restraint in thought and speech.