Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

“ If my husband has to die at your command, let him die. I can never, never ask him not to die.'
'Mother, there must be acts of sacrifice to denote our unflinching devotion to the cause,' Mahatma Satya said with a sigh. 'We all shall have to sacrifice ourselves. I am going to die. Jiban and Bhavan will have to die. Perhaps, my little mother, you, too, will have to die. But you must realise that we must die doing our duty. There is no sense in dying merely for the sake of death, without furthering the cause of our country's freedom. ”

“ In this life the husband is the lord of the wife; but in the life beyond death, righteousness is the lord of us all. My husband is great indeed to me; but greater than he is my sense of duty; and greater even than that is the sense of duty of my husband. I can sacrifice my sense of duty as I like, but I can never allow myself to cause my husband to stray from his path of duty. ”

“ Nothing but good can befall you.'
'How is that possible, Master, when you have ordained widowhood?'
'I certainly failed to appreciate your real worth. Mother, without fully realising the strength of the rope, I pulled it too hard. You are wiser than I. You must find a way out of the tangle for me. ”