Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

It is true that we are made of dust. And the world is also made of dust. But the dust has motes rising.

A wrong concept misleads the understanding; a wrong deed degrades the whole man, and may eventually demolish the structure of the human ego.

Man is primarily governed by passion and instinct.

If the object of poetry is, to make men, then poetry is the heir of prophecy.

Rise above sectional interests and private ambitions... Pass from matter to spirit. Matter is diversity; spirit is light, life and unity.

Everything that possesses life dies if it has to live in uncongenial surroundings.