The Older I grow, the more everything seems to me to lie in manliness. This is my new gospel.
The first sign of your becoming religious is that you are becoming cheerful.
The idea of perfect womanhood is perfect independence.
Anything that brings spiritual, mental, or physical weakness, touch it not with the toes of your feet.
I have a message for the world, which I will deliver without fear and care for the future. To the reformers I will point out that I am a greater reformer than any one of them. They want to reform only little bits. I want root-and-branch reform.
Let us worship the spirit in spirit, standing on spirit. Let the foundation be spirit, the middle spirit, the culmination spirit.
The body is made by the thought that lies behind it. The body politic is thus the expression of national thought.
Our best work is done, our greatest influence is exerted, when we are without thought of self.
The mistake is that we cling to the body when it is the spirit that is really immortal.
When death is so certain, it is better to die for a good cause.
The more opposition there is, the better. Does a river acquire velocity unless there is resistance? The newer and better a thing is, the more opposition I will meet with at the outset. It is opposition which foretells success. Where there is no opposition there is no success either.
Have faith in man, whether he appears to you to be a very learned one or a most ignorant one.
The only saint is that soul that never weakens, faces everything, and determines to die game.
There is nothing beyond God, and the sense enjoyments are simply something through which we are passing now in the hope of getting better things.
I am in every religion as the thread through a string of pearls. Wherever thou seest extraordinary holiness and extraordinary power raising and purifying humanity, know thou that I am there.
Law is death. The more of the law in a country, the worse for the country.
It may be that I shall find it good to get outside of my body – to cast it off like a disused garment. But I shall not cease to work! I shall inspire men everywhere, until the world shall know that it is one with God.
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.
Why should a Man be Moral? Because this strengthens his will.
I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.