There is no beauty in the finest cloth if it makes hunger and unhappiness..

It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings..

A teetotaler would regard it as his duty to associate with his drunkard brother for the purpose of weaning him from the evil habit..

Art to be art must soothe..

The spirit of democracy is not a mechanical thing to be adjusted by abolition of forms. It requires change of heart..

To a hungry man, a piece of bread is the face of God..

Before the throne of the Almighty, man will be judged not by his acts but by his intentions. For God alone reads our hearts..

It was not as easy to commit suicide as to contemplate it..

Personally I crave not for 'independence', which I do not understand, but I long for freedom from the English yoke..

To yield to the threat or actual use of violence is a surrender of one's self respect and religious conviction..

Even the most despotic government cannot stand except for the consent of the governed.... Immediately the subject ceases to fear the despotic force, ….

Desirelessness or renunciation does not come for the mere talking about it..

The aim of university education should be to turn out true servants of the people who will live and die for the country's freedom..

My modesty has prevented me from declaring from the house top that the message of non-co-operation, nonviolence and swadeshi is a message to the worl….

True material welfare is never inconsistent with performance of religious obligations..

I believe in what Max Muller said years ago, namely, that truth needed to be repeated as long as there were men who disbelieved it..

We find the general work of mankind is being carried on from day to day by the mass of people acting in harmony as if by instinct. If they were insti….

No man could look upon another as his enemy, unless he first became his own enemy..

A vow must lead one upwards, never downwards towards perdition..

Every home is a university and the parents are the teachers..

The world cannot be successfully fooled for all time..