The golden rule of conduct is mutual toleration, seeing that we will never all think alike and we shall see Truth in fragment and from different angles of vision.

Any young man, who makes dowry a condition to marriage, discredits his education and his country and dishonours womanhood.

Just as a prayer may be merely a mechanical intonation as of a bird, so may a fast be a mere mechanical torture of the flesh.

A principle is a principle and in no case can it be watered down because of our incapacity to live it in practice. We have to strive to achieve it, and the striving should be conscious, deliberate and hard.

What senseless violence does is to prolong the lease of life of the British or foreign rule.

A nation's greatness is measured by how it treats its weakest members.

The spirit of democracy cannot be superimposed from the outside. It must come from within.