Not believing in the glory of our own soul is what the Vedanta calls atheism.

All misery and pain come from attachment.

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

We shall have to work like lions, keeping the ideal before us, without caring whether "the wise ones praise or blame us".

A certain motion becomes understood when it is referred to a force; certain sensations, to matter; certain changes outside, to law; certain changes in thought, to mind; certain order singly, to causation - and joined to time, to law.

Look not back. No, not even if you see the dearest and nearest cry. Look not back, but forward. We cannot stop. If we stop we die. We have either to go forward or to go backward. We have either to progress or to degenerate.

The power of concentration is the only key to the treasure-house of knowledge.