May the Lord ordain that your son becomes a man, and never a coward!

Excepting the infinite spirit, everything else is changing. There is the whirl of change.

Who will bring light to the poor? Who will travel from door to door bringing education to them? Let these people be your God-think of them, work for them, pray for them incessantly. The Lord will show you the way.

Throw aside your scriptures in the Ganga and teach the people first the means of procuring their food and clothing, and then you will find time to read to them the scriptures.

Have faith in yourselves, and stand up on that faith and be strong; that is what we need.

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with it.

Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!