Force, violence, pressure, or compulsion with a view to conformity, are both uncivilized and undemocratic.
Seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune but deeper felicity.
Have faith in humanity. Humanity is like an ocean, if a few drops are dirty the ocean does’nt become dirty.
Fear has it’s use but cowardice has none.
Nonviolence and truth are inseperable and presuppose one another.
Faith must be enforced by reason. When faith becomes blind it dies.
Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason.
Ill-digested principles are, if anything, worse than ill-digested food, for the latter harms the body and there is cure for it, whereas the former ruins the soul and there is no cure for it.
It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Action expresses priorities.