“A vakil should know human nature. He should be able to read a man’s character from his face. And every Indian ought to know Indian history.”

“I read with interest Max Muller’s book, India—What Can It Teach Us? and the translation of the Upanishads published by the Theosophical Society. All this enhanced my regard for Hinduism, and its beauties began to grow upon me. It did not, however, prejudice me against other religions.”

“In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. ”

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.”

“My difficulties lay deeper. It was more than I could believe that Jesus was the only incarnate son of God, and that only he who believed in him would have everlasting life. If God could have sons, all of us were His sons. If Jesus was like God, or God Himself, then all men were like God and could be God Himself. My reason was not ready to believe literally that Jesus by his death and by his blood redeemed the sins of the world. Metaphorically there might be some truth in it. Again, according to Christianity only human beings had souls, and not other living beings, for whom death meant complete extinction; while I held a contrary belief. I could accept Jesus as a martyr, an embodiment of sacrifice, and a divine teacher, but not as the most perfect man ever born. His death on the Cross was a great example to the world, but that there was anything like a mysterious or miraculous virtue in it my heart could not accept. The pious lives of Christians did not give me anything that the lives of men of other faiths had failed to give. I had seen in other lives just the same reformation that I had heard of among Christians. Philosophically there was nothing extraordinary in Christian principles. From the point of view of sacrifice, it seemed to me that the Hindus greatly surpassed the Christians. It was impossible for me to regard Christianity as a perfect religion or the greatest of all religions.”

“Intolerance betrays want of faith in one's cause.”

“Gift of life is the greatest of all gifts;”

“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”

“They may torture my body, break my bones, even kill me. Then they will have my dead body, but not my obedience.”

“Nothing is so aggravating as calmness.”

“I can retain neither respect nor affection for government which has been moving from wrong to wrong in order to defend its immorality”

“Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into.”

“One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.”

“a mother explains a point to her children over and over again in different words.”

“When I admire the wonders of a sunset or the beauty of the moon, my soul expands in the worship of the creator.”