“She is a myth and an idea, a dream and a vision, and yet very real and present and pervasive.”
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“I am too much of an individualist and believer in personal freedom to like overmuch regimentation.”
“The lesser liberties may often need limitation in the interest of the larger freedom.”
“It is difficult for most of us to think of our ideals and our theories in terms of reality.”
“Ultimately what we really are matters more than what other people think of us.”
“Action itself, so long as I am convinced that it is right action, gives me satisfaction.”
“What real Hinduism may be is a matter for each individual Hindu to decide.”
“Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.”
“The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.”
“Do as you would be done by, is the surest method of pleasing.”
“I recommend you to take care of the minutes: for hours will take care of themselves.”
“Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most always like it the least.”
“Speak of the moderns without contempt, and of the ancients without idolatry.”
“Never seem wiser, nor more learned, than the people you are with.”
“In my mind, there is nothing so illiberal and so ill-bred, as audible laughter.”
“Without some dissimulation no business can be carried on at all.”