To many, Indian thought, Indian manners; Indian customs, Indian philosophy, Indian literature are repulsive at the first sight; but let them persevere, let them read, let them become familiar with the great principles underlying these ideas, and it is ninety-nine to one that the charm will come over them, and fascination will be the result. Slow and silent, as the gentle dew that falls in the morning, unseen and unheard yet producing a most tremendous result, has been the work of the calm, patient, all-suffering spiritual race upon the world of thought.

Alcohol is not the answer to all questions

Each man must begin where he stands, must learn how to control the things that are nearest to him.

Materialism and all its miseries can never be conquered by materialism.

Every atom is working and resisting every thought in the mind. Everything we see and know is but the resultant of these two forces.

Every action generates a force of energy that returns to us in like kind...what we sow is what we reap.

I do not believe in eternal progress, that we are growing on ever and ever in a straight line. It is too nonsensical to believe. There is no motion in a straight line. A straight line infinitely projected becomes a circle. The force sent out will complete the circle and return to its starting place.