At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

Woe be to him who tries to isolate one department of knowledge from the rest. All science is one: language, literature and history, physics, mathematics and philosophy; subjects which seem the most remote from one another are in reality connected, or rather they all form a single system.

Improvement depends far less upon length of tasks and hours of application than is supposed. Children can take in but a little each day; they are like vases with a narrow neck; you may pour little or pour much, but much will not enter at a time.

Achieving a goal is nothing. The getting there is everything.

At its starting point in India, the birthplace of races and religions, the womb of the world.

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.