By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.

It is only work that is done as freewill offering to humanity and to nature that does not bring with it any binding attachment.

Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one

Paris is the fountain-head of European civilisation, as Gomukhi is of the Ganga.

Perfection is not to be attained, it is already within us.

To make a great future India, the whole secret lies in organization, accumulation of power, co-ordination of wills.

The first sign that you are becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful. When a man is gloomy, that may be dyspepsia, but it is not religion. Misery is caused by sin, and by no other cause. What business have you with clouded faces? It is terrible. If you have a clouded face, do not go out that day, shut yourself up in your room. What right have you to carry this disease out into the world?