...ignorant as the unborne babe! ignorant as unborn twins!

If you must be indiscrete, be discrete in your indiscretion.

The happy phrasing of a compliment is one of the rarest of human gifts, and the happy delivery of it another.

It is a good and gentle religion, but inconvenient.

The only very marked difference between the average civilized man and the average savage is that the one is gilded and the other is painted.

France has neither winter, nor summer, nor morals. France is miserable because it is filled with Frenchmen, and Frenchmen are miserable because they live in France.

India is, the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition. our most valuable and most instructive materials in the history of man are treasured up in India only.