The perception of beauty is a moral test.

Every man must walk to the beat of his own drummer.

The great poem must have the stamp of greatness as well as its essence.

Despair and postponement are cowardice and defeat. Men were born to succeed, not to fail.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are... than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

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

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.