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.

What manly eloquence could produce such an effect as woman's silence?

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.

Every epoch dreams its successor.

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

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