ઇન્દ્રિયો જીતવામાં; પંડિત તે ધર્મ ચરવામાં; વક્તા સત્યવાદી થાય તે; અને દાતા લોકહિતને માટે દાન કરે તે.)
Convinced as he was that “success in the modern world was to be obtained only by adaptation to the needs of modern life, he wished his fellow-Hindus to unite an inner light of Divine philosophy, drawn from: their traditional sources, and generously interpreted, to a mastery of the physical science, and the means of natural improvement.” Jurist, statesman, scholar, orator, poet, lover of Nature, and meditative sage, he remains to the West the convincing proof that “it is by the word and example of him and his like that India must be regenerated, and the moral endowments of her children made noble, serviceable for the general welfare of mankind .” –Frazer's Literary History of India on our late Mr. Justice Kashinath T. Telang.
Year by year the leaders of Indian thought in India spread their influence over ever-widening circles, though what the final result may be when these leaders, infused with all the best of the spirit of the East and West, rise up to proclaim that East and West have met, and from the union new forms of thought, new modes of artistic expression, new ways of viewing life, now solutions of religious, social, and moral problems have been produced as they must be, is one that the whole past history of the world teaches us to be watched with hope, not fear or doubt.–Ibid. on the Fusing Point of Old and New.
- On a poet's lips I slept,
- Dreaming like a love-adept
- In the sound his breathing kept.
