Every one is struggling for freedom-from the atom to the star. The ignorant man is satisfied if he can get freedom within a certain limit-if he can get rid of the bondage of hunger or of being thirsty. But that sage feels that there is a stronger bondage which has to be thrown off. He would not consider the freedom of the Red Indian as freedom at all.

The Hindus have a peculiar slovenliness in business matters, not being sufficiently methodical and strict in keeping accounts etc.

To weep is a sign of weakness, of bondage.

You must have an iron will, if you would cross the ocean. You must be strong enough to pierce mountains.

Everything that has form, everything that is the result of combination, is evolved out of this Akasha.

Accumulation of power is as necessary as its diffusion, or rather more so.

Marriage is not for individual happiness, but for the welfare of the nation and the caste.