I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is...

What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see whata work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?

The New Testament is remarkable for its pure morality; the best of the Hindoo Scripture, for its pure intellectuality. The readeris nowhere raised into and sustained in a higher, purer, or rarer region of thought than in the Bhagvat-Geeta.... It is unquestionably one of the noblest and most sacred scriptures which have come down to us.

Each thought that is welcomed and recorded is a nest egg, by the side of which more will be laid.

Expect no trivial truth from me, unless I am on the witness- stand. I will come as near to lying as you can drive a coach and four.

That virtue we appreciate is as much ours as another s. We see so much only as we possess.

But perhaps a man is not required to bury himself.