Preaching has always been the business of the Asiatics. The Western people are grand in organisation, social institutions, armies, governments, etc.; but when it comes to preaching religion, they cannot come near the Asiatic, whose business it has been all the time, and he knows it, and he does not use too much machinery.

Just as man must have liberty to think and speak, so he must have liberty in food, dress, and marriage, and in every other thing, so long as he does not injure others.

A few heart-whole, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century.

The sign of death is weakness.

Stand as a rock; you are indestructible. You are the Self (atman), the God of the universe.

No one is to blame for our miseries but ourselves.

So long as the millions live in hunger and ignorance, I hold every man a traitor who, having been educated at their expense, pays not the least heed to them.