Government, religion, property, books, are nothing but the scaffolding to build men. Earth holds up to her master no fruit like the finished man.

The government is best which makes itself unnecessary.

I lay very little stress either upon asking or giving advice. Generally speaking, they who ask advice know what they wish to do, and remain firm to their intentions. A man may allow himself to be enlightened on various points, even upon matters of expediency and duty; but, after all, he must determine his course of action, for himself.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

Absolutely nothing is so important for a nation's culture as its language.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

Real inward devotion knows no prayer but that arising from the depths of its own feelings.