My ideal, indeed, can be put into a few words, and that is: to preach unto mankind their divinity, and how to make it manifest in every movement of life.

The coward is an object to be pitied.

Man is greater than the gods.

The guiding motive of mankind should be charity towards men, charity towards all animals.

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

It is the same India which has withstood the shocks of centuries, of hundreds of foreign invasions of hundreds of upheavals of manners and customs. It is the same land which stands firmer than any rock in the world, with its undying vigour, indestructible life. Its life is of the same nature as the soul, without beginning and without end, immortal; and we are the children of such a country.

The ideal of womanhood in India is motherhood - that marvellous, unselfish, all - suffering, ever - forgiving mother.