There is no happiness higher than what a man obtains by this attitude of non-offensiveness, to all creation.

What is the use of talking of one's mistakes to the world? They cannot thereby be undone. For what one has done one must suffer; one must try and do better. The world sympathizes only with the strong and the powerful.

. . . it is difficult for Europeans to appreciate the sentiment. Other nations kill animals by wholesale and kill one another; they exist in a sea of blood. A European said that the reason why in India animals were not killed was because it was supposed that they contained the spirits of ancestors. This reason was worthy of a savage nation who are not many steps from the brute.

The very reason for nature's existence is the education of the soul; it has no other meaning.

Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.

God is to be worshiped as the one Beloved, dearer than everything in this and the next life.

That is the great fact which you ought to remember. We are the children of the Almighty, we are sparks of the infinite, divine fire. How can we be nothings? We are everything, ready to do everything, we can do everything, and man must do everything.