एशिया जैसे विशाल इलाके से घिरे भारत के अत्यंत श्रेष्ठ रंगमंच पर, जो हमेशा विज्ञान का पालना रहा है, आनन्ददायक और उपयोगी कलाओं का आविष्कारक रहा है, जहाँ गौरव… - Friedrich Max Müller

As sure as the six Romance dialects point to an original home of Italian shepherds on the seven hills at Rome, the Aryan languages together point to an earlier period of language, when the first ancestors of the Indians, the Persians, the Greeks, the Romans, the Slaves, the Celts, and the Germans were living together within the same enclosures, nay, under the same roof. . . . Before the ancestors of the Indians and Persians started for the south, and the leaders of the Greek, Roman, Celtic, Teutonic, and Slavonic colo- nies marched towards the shores of Europe, there was a small clan of Aryans, settled probably on the highest elevation of Central Asia, speaking a language, not yet Sanskrit or Greek or German, but containing the dialectic germs of all; a clan that had advanced to a state of agricultural civilisation; that had recognised the bonds of blood, and sanctioned the bonds of marriage; and that invoked the Giver of Light and Life in heaven by the same name which you may still hear in the temples of Benares, in the basilicas of Rome, and in our own churches and cathedrals.

आर्य जाति की सभ्यता में संसार के महानतम राष्ट्र यानी हिन्दू, ईरानी, ग्रीक और रोमन, स्लाव, सेल्ट और ट्यूटन आते हैं, उसके अन्तर्गत समझी जाने वाली चीजों के सच्चे प्राकृतिक कीटाणु क्या हैं। किसी व्यक्ति को अच्छा हरवाहा बनने के लिए भूगर्भशास्त्री बनने की जरूरत नहीं है

...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...