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

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

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

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....?

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.

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