Why does it [government] always crucify Christ, and excommunicate Copernicus and Luther, and pronounce Washington and Franklin rebels?

I have much to learn of the Indian, nothing of the missionary.

There would be this advantage in traveling in your own country, even in your own neighborhood, that you would be so thoroughly prepared to understand what you saw you would make fewer traveler's mistakes.

As for the tenets of the Brahmans, we are not so much concerned to know what doctrines they held, as that they were held by any. We can tolerate all philosophies.... It is the attitude of these men, more than any communication which they make, that attracts us.

The newest is but the oldest made visible to our senses.

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short.

It is an interesting question how far men would retain their relative rank if they were divested of their clothes.