The very variety arising from the union of numbers of individuals is the highest good which social life can confer, and this variety is undoubtedly lost in proportion to the degree of State interference.

Samskrit is the unsurpassed zenith in the whole development of languages yet known to us.

Even by means of our sorrows we belong to the eternal plan.

The sorrow which calls for help and comfort is not the greatest, nor does it come from the depths of the heart.

The State is not in itself an end, but is only a means towards human development.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or our unhappiness depends far more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

If the mind loves solitude, it has thereby acquired a loftier character, and it becomes still more noble when the taste is indulged in.