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

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

Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a good thing to say.

So I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with scepticism and unbelief, and the undisciplined pursuit of individual pleasure. A civilization is born stoic and dies epicurean.

India was the motherland of our race and Samskrit the mother of Europe 's languages...Mother India is in many ways the mother of us all.

Destroy it. There may be a redistribution of the land, but the natural inequality of men soon re-creates an inequality of possessions and privileges, and raises to power a new minority with essentially the same instincts as the old.

Knowledge is power but only wisdom is liberty.