A dominant religion is never ascetic.

How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave days of old.

The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

No particular man is necessary to the state. We may depend on it that, if we provide the country with popular institutions, those institutions will provide it with great men.

Temple was a man of the world amongst men of letters, a man of letters amongst men of the world.

It is, I believe, no exaggeration to say that all the historical information which has been collected in the Sanskrit language is less valuable than what may be found in the paltry abridgements used at preparatory schools in England.