ज्यूस में आकाश का कुछ है, पोसीडोन में समुद्र का कुछ है, रेडस में पाताल का, अपोलो में सूर्य का, आरटेमिस में चन्द्रमा का, हेफोस्टोस में अग्नि का कुछ है। - Friedrich Max Müller

सत्य का दूसरा नाम संस्कृत में रित है, जिसका अर्थ मूलत: शायद सीधा था,

Whether listening to the shrieks of the Shaman sorcerers of Tatary, or to the odes of Pindar, or to the sacred songs of Paul Gerhard: whether looking at the pagodas of China, or the Parthenon of Athens, or the cathedral of Cologne: whether reading the sacred books of the Buddhists, of the Jews, or of those who worship God in spirit and in truth, we ought to be able to say, like the Emperor Maximilian, 'Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto,' or, translating his words somewhat freely, 'I am a man, nothing pertaining to man I deem foreign to myself.'

Is not a dew-drop on a blade of grass more beautiful than a pearl set in gold? Is not a living spring, which gushes up before us, we know not whence, more beautiful than all the fountains of Versailles?