A system in which the two great commandments are to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbor's wife.

Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.

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.

The perfect disinterestedness and self-devotion of which men seem incapable, but which is sometimes found in women.

No man in the world acts up to his own standard of right.

The business of everybody is the business of nobody.

A single breaker may recede; but the tide is evidently coming in.