My own life in India, since I came to it in 1893 to make it my home,…

Every person, every race, every nation, has its own particular keynote which it brings to the general chord of life and of humanity. Life is not a monotone but a many-stringed harmony, and to this harmony is contributed a distinctive note …

Better remain silent, better not even think, if you are not prepared to act.

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.

Liberty is a great celestial Goddess, strong, beneficent, and austere, and she can never descend upon a nation by the shouting of crowds, nor by arguments of unbridled passion, nor by the hatred of class against class.

The true Mystic, realising God, has no need of any Scriptures, for he has touched the source whence all Scriptures flow.

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.