"In the latter, the story receives a novel twist with reference to the Holocaust: A seven-year-old Misha Defonseca survived the Holocaust by fleeing into the forest where she claims she was raised by wolves. Now she has written about her ordeal. Of these stories, I have more confidence in the former as it is well-documented and credibly argued."

"That history should have imitated history was already sufficiently marvellous; that history should imitate literature is inconceivable...."

"Vereker’s secret, my dear man — the general intention of his books: the string the pearls were strung on, the buried treasure, the figure in the carpet."

"The book is in everyone's hands, from the court to the cottage, and is read, or heard, and appreciated alike by every class of the Hindu community, whether high or low, rich or poor, young or old."

"My intention was to give a general outline, to sketch a general division and, as it were, a provisional plan of a domain that has not been studied so far and which should be the result of work for man…"