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.

Grief, which disposes gentle natures to retirement, to inaction, and to meditation, only makes restless spirits more restless.

With the dead there is no rivalry, with the dead there is no change.

Half-knowledge is worse than ignorance.

It is impossible for us, with our limited means, to attempt to educate the body of the people. We must at present do our best to form a class who may be interpreters between us and the millions whom we govern.

We are free, we are civilised, to little purpose, if we grudge to any portion of the human race an equal measure of freedom and civilisation.

A dominant religion is never ascetic.