In its youth a people produce mythology and poetry; in its decadence, philosophy and logic.

For you will sorely miss civilization if it is sacrificed in the turbulence of change.

The only real revolution is in the enlightenment of the mind and the improvement of character, the only real emancipation is individual, and the only real revolutionists are philosophers and saints.

It is true that even across the Himalayan barrier India has sent to the west, such gifts as grammar and logic, philosophy and fables, hypnotism and chess, and above all numerals and the decimal system.

Contentment is rare among men as it is natural among animals

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

From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.