To cowards what advice shall I offer? - nothing whatsoever have I to say.

When a man is perfect, he sees perfection in others. When he sees imperfection, it is his own mind projecting itself.

Dependence is misery. Independence is happiness.

A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.

Everything is the living God, the living Christ; see it as such.

We must have life building, man-making, character-making assimilation of ideas.

Man cannot always think of matter, however pleasurable it may be.