“I was taught by my parents that, if I was struck on the right cheek, I should turn the left, and that I was to die rather than smite again. I never struck a blow and never received one, and I used to believe firmly that an angel from heaven would help me if I needed it.”

Expressing a lifelong commitment to non-violence rooted in parental teaching and childhood faith · Lilliput Lectures

• Childhood
• Faith
• Nonviolence

“I learnt by my eyes, picking out words as I picked out cats from dogs, and trees from lamp-posts.”

Describing a visual, comparative method of early reading that later aided language learning · Autobiography of an Irreconcilable (memoirs)

• Education
• Learning
• Reading

“To torture a fly, to tease a pet, but still more, to tease a playmate, to try to make another creature give up a part of its freedom, just to please our whims (without giving in return something it is glad to receive) is an offence in the eyes of God.”

Condemning any cruelty that restricts the liberty of living things for mere amusement · Lilliput Lectures

• Animals
• Cruelty
• Freedom