Possession, it is true, crowns exertion with rest; but it is only in the illusions of fancy that it has power to charm us.

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.

A man must seek his happiness and inward peace from objects which cannot be taken away from him.

How a person masters his or her fate is more important than what that fate is.

Coercion may prevent many transgressions; but it robs even actions which are legal of a part of their beauty. Freedom may lead to many transgressions, but it lends even to vices a less ignoble form.

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

Wherever the citizen becomes indifferent to his fellows, so will the husband be to his wife, and the father of a family toward the members of his household.