Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

The very idea of an infinite in place would be a contradiction in terms, as a place must begin and continue in time.

The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.

Until higher institutions have been evolved, any attempt to break the old ones will be disastrous.

Man is the highest being in creation, because he attains to freedom.

The fruit falls from the tree when it gets ripe. So wait for the time to come. Do not hurry. Moreover, no one has the right to make others miserable by his foolish acts. Wait, have patience, everything will come right in time.

. . . 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.