That is the best government which desires to make the people happy, and knows how to make them happy.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing.

We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.

Free trade, one of the greatest blessings which a government can confer on a people, is in almost every country unpopular.

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.