When you feel gloomy, think what has been done within the last year. How, rising from nothing.

If the mind is intensely eager, everything can be accomplished—mountains can be crumbled into atoms.

You have no more anger when you are all love, bliss, infinite existence. . . .

Persevere on, my brave lads, We have only just begun. Never despond! Never say enough!

As to the so-called Hindu idolatry - first go and learn the forms they are going through, and where it is that the worshippers are really worshipping, whether in the temple, in the image, or in the temple of their own bodies. First know for certain what they are doing - which more than ninety per cent of the revilers are thoroughly ignorant of - and then it will explain itself in the light of the Vedantic philosophy.

This is a great fact: strength is life; weakness is death. Strength is felicity, life eternal, immortal; weakness is constant strain and misery, weakness is death.

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