Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.

Caesar's armies marched on vegetarian foods.

Progress is the domination of chaos by mind and purpose, of matter by form and will. It need not be continuous to be real.

Civilization is a stream with banks. The stream is sometimes filled with blood from people killing, stealing, shouting and doing the things historians usually record, while on the banks, unnoticed, people build homes, make love, raise children, sing songs, write poetry and even whittle statues. The story of civilization is what happened on the banks.

India was the motherland of our race, and Sanskrit the mother of Europe's languages: she was the mother of our philosophy; mother, through the Arabs, of much of our mathematics; mother, through the Buddha, of the ideals embodied in Christianity; mother, through the village community, of self-government and democracy. Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

History is so indifferently rich, that a case for almost any conclusion from it can be made by a selection of instances.

The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife.