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

We have seen that our vigour, our strength, nay, our national life is in our religion.

Things do not grow better; they remain as they are. It is we who grow better, by the changes we make in ourselves.

The sculptor, the painter the musician the dancer, or any artist, if he can first obtain celebrate in Paris, acquires very easily the esteem and eulogy of other countries.

Whenever there is a conflict between the pure heart and the intellect, always side with the pure heart.

Jnana teaches that the world should be given up, but not on that account to be abandoned. To be in the world but not of it-is the true test of the sannyasin.

We read many books, but that does not bring us knowledge. We may read all the Bibles in the world, but that will not give us religion. Theoretical religion is easy enough to get, any one may get that. What we want is practical religion.