My only sanction is the love and affection in which you hold me. But it has its weaknesses, as it has its strengths.

How can I even secretly harbour the thought that my neighbour's faith is inferior to mine?

Love is the strongest force the world possesses and yet it is the humblest imaginable.

To slight a single human being, is to slight those divine powers and thus to harm not only that being but with him, the whole world.

It is degrading both for man and woman that woman should be called upon or induced to forsake the hearth and shoulder the rifle for the protection of that hearth.

I am not conscious of a single experience throughout my three months' stay in England and Europe that made me feel that after all East is East and West is West. On the contrary, I have been convinced more than ever that human nature is much the same, no matter under what clime it flourishes, and that if you approached people with trust and affection you would have ten-fold trust and thousand-fold affection returned to you.

All your scholarship, all your study of Shakespeare and Wordsworth would be in vain, if at the same time you do not build your character, and attain mastery over your thoughts and actions.