Every epoch dreams its successor.

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

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.

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

He who knows how to be poor knows everything.

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

The indifference of men, far more than their tyranny, is the torment of women.