The community has no bribe that will tempt a wise man.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

The stars are the jewels of the night, and perchance surpass anything which day has to show.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

The effect of a good government is to make life more valuable; of a bad one, to make it less valuable.

If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would ... [be] the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

I am struck by the fact that the more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think that the same is true of human beings.