We may worship a picture as God, but not God as the picture. God in the picture is right, but the picture as God is wrong. God in the image is perfectly right. There is no danger there. This is the real worship of God. But the image-God is a mere Pratika.

To believe that mind is all, that thought is all is only a higher materialism.

The test of progress is the amount of renunciation that one has attained.

The best thermometer to the progress of a nation is its treatment of its women.

What power is higher than the power of purity?

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigour in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas.

Only those who want nothing are masters of Nature.