Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

You can hardly convince a man of an error in a lifetime, but must content yourself with the reflection that the progress of science is slow. If he is not convinced, his grandchildren may be.

A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.

Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we begin to find ourselves, and realize where we are and the infinite extent of our relations.

English sense has toiled, but Hindoo wisdom never perspired.

The intellect is a cleaver; it discerns and rifts its way into the secrets of things.

In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.