I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Results are nothing; the energies which produce them and which again spring from them are everything.

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

We cannot assume the injustice of any actions which only create offense, and especially as regards religion and morals. He who utters or does anything to wound the conscience and moral sense of others, may indeed act immorally; but, so long as he is not guilty of being importunate, he violates no right.