हम ग्रीकों और रोमनों को साहित्यिक लोगों के रूप में समझते हैं और इसमें सन्देह नहीं कि वे ऐसे थे, किन्तु यह हम जैसा समझते हैं उससे बिलकुल भिन्न अर्थ में था। … - Friedrich Max Müller

उसकी परिधि में न केवल पूजा और प्रार्थना आती थी, बल्कि हम जिसे दर्शन, नैतिकता, कानून और सरकार कहते हैं, वह सब धर्म में आता था। उनका सारा जीवन उनके लिए धर्म था

The Veda may be called primitive, because there is no other literary document more primitive than it; but the language, the mythology, the religion and philosophy that meet us in the Veda open vistas of the past which no one would venture to measure in years. Nay, they contain, by the side of simple, natural, childish thoughts, many ideas which to us sound modern, or secondary and tertiary, as I called them, but which nevertheless are older than any other literary document, and give us trustworthy information of a period in the history of human thought of which we knew absolutely nothing before the discovery of the Vedas.

...universities were not meant entirely, or even chiefly, as stepping-stones to an examination, but that there is something else which universities can teach and ought to teach — nay, which I feel quite sure they were originally meant to teach — something that may not have a marketable value before a Board of Examiners, but which has a permanent value for the whole of our life, and that is a real interest in our work, and, more than that, a love of our work, and, more than that, a true joy and happiness in our work...