The scent of flowers does not travel against the wind; but the odor of good people travels; even against the wind: a good man pervades every place.

There never was a false god, nor was there ever really a false religion, unless you call a child a false man.

In the history of the world the Vedas fill a gap which no literary work in any other language could fill. I maintain that to everybody who cares for himself for his ancestors for his intellectual development a study of the Vedic literature is indeed indispensable.

It is the heart that makes the critic, not the nose.

Samskrit is the greatest language of the world.

If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply pondered on the greatest problems of life, and has found solutions, I should point to India.

The spring of love becomes hidden and soon filled up.