Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syllabus. It is the truth of our complete being, the consciousness of our personal relationship with the infinite.

The danger inherent in all force grows stronger when it is likely to gain success, for then it becomes temptation.

Obstinate are the trammels, but my heart aches when I try to break them. Freedom is all I want, but to hope for it I feel ashamed. I am certain that priceless wealth is in thee, and that thou art my best friend, but I have not the heart to sweep away the tinsel that fills my room. The shroud that covers me is a shroud of dust and death; I hate it, yet hug it in love. My debts are large, my failures great, my shame secret and heavy; yet when I come to ask for my good, I quake in fear lest my prayer be granted.

Life, like a child, laughs, shaking its rattle of death as it runs.

In death the many become one; in life the one become many.

Ah, thou hast made my heart captive in the endless meshes of thy music, my master!

Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action-Into that heaven of freedom, my father, let my country awake.