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

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.

Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.

Love is strong in its passion; affection is powerful in its gentleness.

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

Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the clouds of the imagination and their gloomy weight; which illuminates the reality of things suddenly with the flush of truth.

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