I recall having read, at the brothers' instance, Madame Blavatsky's Key to Theosophy. This book stimulated in me the desire to read books on Hinduism, and disabused me of the notion fostered by the missionaries that Hinduism was rife with superstition.

That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

Creation of effective public opinion depends on the cultivation of true courage, born of truthfulness and nonviolence.

The law of love knows no bounds of space or time.

In the Gita continuous concentration on God is the king of sacrifices.

Whatever else India may not be, she is at least one thing, She is the greatest storehouse of spiritual knowledge.

Experience gained in two schools under my control has taught me that punishment does not purify, if anything, it hardens children.