We are responsible for what we are, and whatever we wish ourselves to be, we have the power to make ourselves.

Man is not mind, he is soul.

We are for ever trying to make our weakness look like strength, our sentiment like love, our cowardice like courage, and so on.

The sages are often ignorant of physical science, because they read the wrong book-the book within; and the scientists are too often ignorant of religion, because they too read the wrong book-the book outside.

The greatest religion is to be true to your own nature. Have faith in yourselves.

Knowledge can only be got in one way, the way of experience; there is no other way to know.

Brave, bold men, these are what we want. What we want is vigor in the blood, strength in the nerves, iron muscles and nerves of steel, not softening namby-pamby ideas. Avoid all these. Avoid all mystery. There is no mystery in religion. Is there any mystery in the Vedanta, or in the Vedas, or in the Samhitâs, or in the Puranas? What secret societies did the sages of yore establish to preach their religion? What sleight-of-hand tricks are there recorded as used by them to bring their grand truths to humanity?