The help which tends to make us spiritually strong is the highest help, next to it comes intellectual help and after that comes physical help.

Everything that has name and form must begin in time, exist in time, and end in time. These are settled doctrines of the Vedanta, and as such the heavens are given up.

No civilisation can grow unless fanatics, bloodshed, and brutality stop. No civilisation can begin to lift up its head until we look charitably upon one another; and the first step towards that much-needed charity is to look charitably and kindly upon the religious convictions of others. Nay more, to understand that not only should we be charitable, but positively helpful to each other, however different our religious ideas and convictions may be.

Ignorance is death, Knowledge is life.

The body is our enemy, and yet is our friend.

In the English character, the "give and take" policy, the business principle of the trader, is principally inherent.

Test everything, try everything, and then believe it, and if you find it for the good of many, give it to all.