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

It is practice first, and knowledge afterwards.

The world has not gone one step beyond idolatry yet.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

Our own selfishness makes us the most arrant cowards; our own selfishness is the great cause of fear and cowardice.

The ignorant man never enjoys.

It will not do merely to listen to great principles. You must apply them in the practical field, turn them into constant practice. What will be the good of cramming the high - sounding dicta of the scriptures? You have first to grasp the teachings of the Shastras, and then to work them out in practical life. Do you understand? This is called practical religion.