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.

A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.

Even when repressed, inequality grows; only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom, and in the end superior ability has its way.

If a man is fortunate he will, before he dies, gather up as much as he can of his civilized heritage and transmit it to his children.

The health of nations is more important than the wealth of nations.

Grow strong, my comrade … that you may stand Unshaken when I fall; that I may know The shattered fragments of my song will come At last to finer melody in you; That I may tell my heart that you begin Where passing I leave off, and fathom more.

Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.