Never make a promise in haste.

We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder.

The power we call God defies description.

In a self-respecting India, is not every woman's virtue as much every man's concern as his own sister's?

God will not be God, if He allowed Himself to be the object of proof by His creatures.

A slave- holder, who has decided to abolish slavery, does not consult his slaves whether they desire freedom or not.

Happiness, the goal to which we all are striving is reached by endeavoring to make the lives of others happy, and if by renouncing the luxuries of life we can lighten the burdens of others.... surely the simplification of our wants is a thing greatly to be desired! And so, if instead of supposing that we must become hermits and dwellers in caves in order to practice simplicity, we set about simplifying our affairs, each according to his own convictions and opportunity, much good will result and the simple life will at once be established.