Revolution did not necessarily involve sanguinary strife. It was not a cult of bomb and pistol. They may sometimes be mere means for its achievement.

I will climb the gallows gladly and show to the world as to how bravely the revolutionaries can sacrifice themselves for the cause.

A rebellion is not a revolution. It may ultimately lead to that end.

Nirvana is not the blowing out of the candle. It is the extinguishing of the flame because day is come.

Bigotry tries to keep teeth safe in its hand with a grip that kills it.

Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.

Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your response later on.

To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Those who own much have much to fear.

Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Emancipation from the bondage of the soil is no freedom for the tree.

In Art, man reveals himself and not his objects.

If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.

From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.

We live in the world when we love it.

He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.

Age considers; youth ventures.

We gain freedom when we have paid the full price.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Life is given to us, we earn it by giving it.

Music fills the infinite between two souls.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.

The flower which is single need not envy the thorns that are numerous.

What is Art? It is the response of man's creative soul to the call of the Real.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.

By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.