Strength and manliness are virtue; weakness and cowardice are sin.

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.

"Learn good knowledge with all devotion from the lowest caste. Learn the way to freedom, even if it comes from a Pariah, by serving him. If a woman is a jewel, take her in marriage even if she comes from a low family of the lowest caste." Such is the law laid down by our great and peerless legislator, the divine Manu.

Religion is being and becoming. Religion is the manifestation of the Divinity already in man.

First of all, our young must be strong. Religion will come afterwards.

That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you see in the Hindu paintings? All sorts of grotesque and unnatural figures. What do you see in a Hindu temple? A Chaturbhanga Narayana or some such thing. But take into consideration any Italian picture or Grecian statue-what a study of nature you find in them! A gentleman for twenty years sat burning a candle in his hand, in order to paint a lady carrying a candle in her hand.

All want power, but few will wait to gain it for themselves.