Skepticism, riddling the faith of yesterday, prepared the way for the faith of tomorrow.

Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

Be reverent before the dawning day. Do not think of what will be in a year, or in ten years. Think of to-day.

All these young millionaires were anarchists, of course: when a man possesses everything it is the supreme luxury for him to deny society: for in that way he can evade his responsibilities

His (Swami Vivekananda) words are great music, phrases in the style of Beethoven, stirring rhythms like the march of Handel choruses. I cannot touch these sayings of his, scattered as they are through the pages of books, at thirty years' distance, without receiving a thrill through my body like an electric shock. And what shocks, what transports, must have been produced when in burning words they issued from the lips of the hero!

The greatest human ideal is the great cause of bringing together the thoughts of Europe and Asia; the great soul of India will topple our world.