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.

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

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.

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

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

Each year, it is necessary to respire, to take breath again, to revive ourselves at the great living sources that forever keep their eternal freshness. Where can we find them if not at the cradle of our race, on the sacred summits from where descend the Indus and the Ganges....?

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