The householder must always please his wife with money, clothes, love and faith and never do anything to disturb her. That man who has succeeded in getting the love of a chaste wife has succeeded in his religion and has all the virtues.

Man is to become divine by realizing the divine. Idols or temples, or churches or books, are only the supports, the help of his spiritual childhood.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

If you intend to study the mind, you must have systematic training; you must practice to bring the mind under your control.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

Worship of society and popular opinion is idolatry.

Religion is realization; not talk, nor doctrine, nor theories however beautiful they may be. It is being and becoming, not hearing, or acknowledging; it is the whole soul becoming what it believes.