If faith in ourselves had been more extensively taught and practiced, I am sure a very large portion of the evils and miseries that we have would have vanished.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.

We must approach religion with reverence and with love, and our heart will stand up and say, this is truth, and this is untruth.

This earth is higher than all the heavens; this is the greatest school in the universe.

Learn obedience first. Among these Western nations, with such a high spirit of independence, the spirit of obedience is equally strong. We are all of us self-important, which never produces any work. Great enterprise, boundless courage, tremendous energy, and, above all, perfect obedience; these are the only traits that lead to individual and national regeneration. These traits are altogether lacking in us.

This faith in themselves was in the hearts of our ancestors, this faith in themselves was the motive power that pushed them forward and forward in the march of civilisation, and if there has been degeneration, if there has been defect, mark my words, you will find that degeneration to have started on the day our people lost faith in themselves.

Say, "I can do everything ." "Even if poison of a snake is powerless if you can firmly deny it."