While real perfection is only one, relative perfections must be many.

What good being object of charity? Give away, ne'er turn to ask in return, Should there be the wealth treasured in thy heart.

You never hear of a mother cursing the child; she is forgiving, always forgiving.

In these days of intellectual awakening and steadily asserting public opinion, the holy places of the Hindus, their condition, and method of work have not escaped tile keen eye of criticism; and this city, being the holy of holies to all Hindus, has not failed to attract its full share of censure.

We, we, and none else, are responsible for what we suffer. We are the effects, and we are the causes.

"Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God." Can we see God? Of course not. Can we know God? Of course not. If God can be known, He will be God no longer. Knowledge is limitation. But I and my Father are one: I find the reality in my soul. These ideas are expressed in some religions, and in others only hinted. In some they were expatriated. Christ's teachings are now very little understood in this country. If you will excuse me, I will say that they have never been very well understood.

External nature is only internal nature writ large.