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

It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

To behold, is not necessary to observe, and the power of comparing and combining is only to be obtained by education. It is much to be regretted that habits of exact observation are not cultivated in our schools; to this deficiency may be traced much of the fallacious reasoning, the false philosophy which prevails.

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.

All situations in which the interrelationships between extremes are involved are the most interesting and instructive.

The more a man acts on his own, the more he develops himself. In large associations he is too prone to become merely an instrument.

Fancy brings us as many vain hopes as idle fears.