Chill penury weighs down the heart itself; and though it sometimes be endured with calmness, it is but the calmness of despair.

In morals, what begins in fear usually ends in wickedness; in religion, what begins in fear usually ends in fanaticism. Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Extreme vanity sometimes hides under the garb of ultra modesty.

Childhood sometimes does pay a second visit to man; youth never.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are. The mere aspiration, by changing the frame of mind, for the moment realizes itself.

All my experience of the world teaches me that in ninety-nine cases out of a hundred the safe side and the just side of a question is the generous side and the merciful side.

As the presence of those we love is as a double life, so absence, in its anxious longing and sense of vacancy, is as a foretaste of death.

All government, all exercise of power, no matter in what form, which is not based in love and directed by knowledge, is a tyranny.

Nature and truth are one, and immutable, and inseparable as beauty and love.

To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

We're all the same in the dark.

As a Jew, I had no desire to challenge my childhood prejudice. But as a teacher, I could not do otherwise.

Friends will not only live in harmony but in melody.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Take time to be kind and to say 'thank you.'

As you keep moving forward, you can stay upright even when outside forces try to pull you down.

A Christian fellowship lives and exists by the intercession of its members for one another, or it collapses.

Whatever you design[/make/build], use it to raise the expectations of what can be achieved

Create inner freedom through witnessing. Sannyas is only for the inner freedom. And live out of inner freedom.

Europe sees itself as a liberal-minded society. It has no desire to be, nor can it be, a "Christian club.