It is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for love's sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward 'love' unselfishly for love's sake.

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

Ignorance is death, knowledge is life. Life is of very little value, if it is a life in the dark, groping through ignorance and misery.

The essence of Vedanta is that there is but one Being and that every soul is that Being in full, not a part of that Being.

Compared to the coward that never made the attempt, he is a hero.

Everything is easy when you are busy. But nothing is easy when you are lazy.

The natural ambition of woman is through marriage to climb up, leaning upon a man; but those days are gone. You shall be great without the help of any man, just as you are.