Charity is great, but the moment you say it is all, you run the risk of running into materialism.

The hard discipline, with the exception of one great good point, is fraught with evil. The good point is that men can do one or two things well with very little effort, having practiced them every day through generations.

It is impossible to think about the welfare of the world unless the condition of women is improved. It is impossible for a bird to fly on only one wing.

You yourself are to blame. This weeping and wailing and knocking your heads into corners [against brick walls, as it were] will not do you the least good.

Books are only made so that they may point the way to a higher life; but no good results unless the path is trodden with unflinching steps!

Neither seek nor avoid; take what comes. It is liberty to be affected by nothing. Do not merely endure; be unattached.

Astrology and all these mystical things are generally signs of a weak mind