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.

How beautifully everything is arranged by Nature; as soon as a child enters the world, it finds a mother ready to take care of it.

Great hearts alone understand how much glory there is in being good.

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

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

He who would confine his thought to present time will not understand present reality.

Woman is the Sunday of man: not his repose only, but his joy; the salt of his life.