His (swami Vivekananda) Words Are Great Music,

Religious Faith In The Case Of The Hindus Has Never Been Allowed To Run Counter To Scientific Laws, Moreover The Former Is Never Made A Condition For The Knowledge They Teach, But There Are Always Scrupulously Careful To Take Into Consideration The Possibility That By Reason Both The Agnostic And Atheist May Attain Truth In Their Own Way. Such Tolerance May Be Surprising To Religious Believers In The West, But It Is An Integral Part Of Vedantic Belief.

If There Is One Place On The Face Of Earth Where All The Dreams Of Living Men Have Found A Home From The Very Earliest Days When Man Began The Dream Of Existence, It Is India.

Be Reverent Before The Dawning Day. Do Not Think Of What Will Be In A Year, Or In Ten Years. Think Of To-day.

To Understand Everything Is To Hate Nothing.

His (swami Vivekananda) Words Are Great Music, Phrases In The Style Of Beethoven, Stirring Rhythms Like The March Of Handel Choruses. I Cannot Touch These Sayings Of His, Scattered As They Are Through The Pages Of Books, At Thirty Years' Distance, Without Receiving A Thrill Through My Body Like An Electric Shock. And What Shocks, What Transports, Must Have Been Produced When In Burning Words They Issued From The Lips Of The Hero!