I’m a lover of my own liberty, and so I would do nothing to restrict yours.
I have always felt that the true text-book for the pupil is his teacher.
Literary education is of no value, if it is not able to build up a sound character.
Disease increases in proportion to the increase in the number of doctors in a place.
If you have no character to lose, people will have no faith in you.
Truth alone will endure, all the rest will be swept away before the tide of time.
The principle of majority does not work when differences on fundamentals are involved.
Men say I am a saint losing himself in politics. The fact is that I am a politician trying my hardest to become a saint.
Good travels at a snail’s pace. Those who want to do good are not selfish, they are not in a hurry, they know that to impregnate people with good requires a long time.
Study not man in his animal nature – man following the laws of the jungle – but study man in all his glory.
Imitation is the sincerest flattery.
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Everyone who wills can hear the inner voice. It is within everyone.
Healthy discontent is the prelude to progress.
No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
Moral authority is never retained by any attempt to hold on to it. It comes without seeking and is retained without effort.
The only tyrant I accept in this world is the still voice within.
Providence has its appointed hour for everything. We cannot command results, we can only strive.
Morality which depends upon the helplessness of a man or woman has not much to recommend it. Morality is rooted in the purity of our hearts.