It is too often believed that a person in his progress towards perfection passes from error to truth; that when he passes on from one thought to another, he must necessarily reject the first. But no error can lead to truth. The soul passing through its different stages goes from truth to truth, and each stage is true; it goes from lower truth to higher truth.

Christians are always wanting God to give them something. They appear as beggars before the throne of the Almighty.

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

May I be born again and again, and suffer thousands of miseries so that I may worship the only God that exists, the only God I believe in, the sum total of all souls-and, above all, my God the wicked, my God the miserable, my God the poor of all races, of all species, is the special object of my worship.

Learning and wisdom are superfluities, the surface glitter merely, but it is the heart that is the seat of all power.

Everything, both mental and physical, is rigidly bound by the law of causation.

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth.