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.

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

What is the first part of politics? Education. The second? Education. And the third? Education.

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

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

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....?