Power takes as ingratitude the writhing of its victims

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Music fills the infinite between two souls. This has been muffled by the mist of our daily habits.

If it is necessary to die in order to live like men, what harm in dying?

A butterfly flitting from flower to flower ever remains mine, I lose the one that is netted by me.

Man's freedom is never in being saved from troubles, but it is the freedom to take trouble for his own good, to make the trouble an element in his joy.

We do not want nowadays temples of worship and outward rites and ceremonies. What we really want is an Asram. We want a place where the beauty of nature and the noblest pursuits of man are in a sweet harmony.