Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

In most books, the I, of first person, is omitted; in this it will be retained; that, in respect to egotism, is the main difference.

To the virtuous man, the universe is the only sanctum sanctorum, and the penetralia of the temple are the broad noon of his existence.

Men must speak English who can write Sanskrit; they must speak a modern language who write, perchance, an ancient and universal one.

There are various, nay, incredible faiths; why should we be alarmed at any of them? What man believes, God believes.

I am sorry to think that you do not get a man's most effective criticism until you provoke him. Severe truth is expressed with some bitterness.

After all, the practical reason why, when the power is once in the hands of the people, a majority are permitted, and for a long period continue, to rule is not because they are most likely to be in the right, nor because this seems fairest to the minority, but because they are physically the strongest. But a government in which the majority rule in all cases cannot be based on justice, even as far as men understand it.