For the existing world is not a dream, and cannot with impunity be treated as a dream; neither is it a disease; but it is the ground on which you stand, it is the mother of whom you were born.

Before a leaf-bud has burst, its whole life acts; in the full-blown flower there is no more; in the leafless root there is no less.

It is one of the biggest blessing that you can be stupid with your true friends and behave like you shame to do elsewhere

The ornaments of our homes are the friends that visit it

Emancipation is the demand of civilization. That is a principle; everything else is an intrigue.

There is no calamity that right words will not begin to redress

We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds... A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men.