Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

To the Indian mind there is nothing higher than religious ideals, that this is the keynote of Indian life.

If I am immune against all anger, I never feel angry.

Where can we go to find God if we cannot see Him in our own hearts and in every living being.

Man is man so long as he is struggling to rise above nature, and this nature is both internal and external.

Slavery is slavery. The chain of gold is quite as bad as the chain of iron. Is there a way out?

According to the law of nature, wherever there is an awakening of a new and stronger life, there it tries to conquer and take the place of the old and the decaying. Nature favours the dying out of the unfit and the survival of the fittest. The final result of such conflict between the priestly and the other classes has been mentioned already.