“In the morning I bathe my intellect in the stupendous and the cosmogonal philosophy of the Bhagavad Gita, since whose composition years of the gods have elapsed, and in comparison with which our modern world and its literature seem puny and trivial and I doubt if that philosophy is not to be referred to a previous state of Existence, so remote is its sublimity from our conceptions”

While talking about the pyramids of Egypt he says, “How much more admirable the Bhagavad Gita than all the ruins of the East.”