It is not a mistake to commit a mistake, for no one commits a mistake knowing it to be one. But it is a mistake not to correct the mistake after knowing it to be one. If you are afraid of committing a mistake, you are afraid of doing anything at all. You will correct your mistakes whenever you find them.

Is not labour, like learning, its own reward?

Nothing once begun should be abandoned, unless it is proved to be morally wrong.

The seeker is at liberty to extract from this treasure any meaning he likes, so as to enable him to enforce in his life the central teaching.

Woman is the companion of man, gifted with equal mental capacity...If by strength is meant moral power, then woman is immeasurably man's superior...If non-violence is the law of our being, the future is with women.

The study of Indian economics is the study of the spinning wheel.

Civilization is not an incurable disease, but it should never be forgotten that the English people are at present afflicted by it.