The worlds only sanskrit online daily. Sudharma

"Land of religions cradle of human race birthplace of human speech grandmother of legend great grandmother of tradition. The land that men with intellectual bent desire to see and having seen once even by a glimpse would not give that glimpse for the shows of the rest of the globe combined." 

    -- Mark Twain (1835-1910) 

"The intellectual debt of Europe to Samskrit literature has been undeniably great. It may perhaps become greater still in the years that are to come. We (Europeans) are still behind the making even our alphabet a perfect one." 

    -- Prof. Macdonell 

"Wouldst thou the young year's blossoms and the fruits of its decline
And all by which the soul is charmed, enraptured, feasted, fed,
Wouldst thou the earth and heaven itself in one sole name combine?
I name thee, O Sakuntala! and all at once is said."

Goethe commenting on the Shakuntala play by Kalidasa

If Samskrit would be divorced from the everyday life of the masses of this country, a light would be gone from the life of the people and the distinctive features of Hindu culture which have won for it an honoured place in world-thought would soon be affected to be great disadvantage and loss both of India and of the world." 

    -- Sir Mirza Ismail 

"The Veda was the most precious gift for which the West had ever been indebted to the East." 

    -- Voltaire 

The language of Samskrit is of a wonderful structure, more perfect than Greek, more copious than Latin and more exquisitely refined than either. Human life would not be sufficient to make oneself acquainted with any considerable part of Hindu literature." 

    -- Sir William Jones

"Samskrit has moulded the minds of our people to the extent to which they themselves are not conscious. Samskrit literature is national in one sense, but its purpose has been universal. That was why it commanded the attention of people who were not followers of a particular culture." 

    -- Dr. S. Radhakrishnan

"Samskrit language, as has been universally recognized by those competent to form a judgment, is one of the most magnificent, the most perfect, the most prominent and wonderfully sufficient literary instrument developed by the human mind." 

    -- Sri Aurobindo 

"Without the study of Samskrit one cannot become a true Indian and a true learned man." 

    -- Mahatma Gandhi 

If I was asked what is the greatest treasure which India possesses and what is her finest heritage, I would answer unhesitatingly - it is the Sanskrit language and literature and all that it contains.

         Javaharlal Nehru