He who seeks beauty will eventually find it, and discover that the Persians are not entirely deceived in their Hafiz, nor the Hindoos in their Kalida… - Friedrich Max Müller

61. If a traveller does not meet with one who is his better, or his equal, let him firmly keep to his solitary journey; there is no companionship with a fool.

The true history of the world must always be the history of the few; and as we measure the Himalaya by the height of Mount Everest, we must take the true measure of India from the poets of the Veda, the sages of the Upanishads, the founders of the Vedanta and Sankhya philosophies, and the authors of the oldest law-books, and not from the millions who are born and die in their villages, and who have never for one moment been roused out of their drowsy dream of life.

ऋग्वेद पढ़नेवाले प्रत्येक विद्यार्थी को आठ वर्ष तक गुरु के घर में बिताना होता है। उसे दस ग्रन्थ पढ़ने होते हैं : प्रथम, ऋग्वेद की ऋचाएँ, फिर यज्ञों का गद्य ग्रन्थ जिसे ब्राह्मण कहते हैं, फिर अरण्यक, फिर घरू समारोहों के नियमों को, और अन्त में शिक्षा, व्याकरण, कल्प, निरुक्त, छन्द और ज्योतिष का अध्ययन करना पड़ता है।