Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.

Death is but a word to us. One's own experience alone can teach us the real meaning of the word. The sight of the dying does little. What one sees of them is merely what precedes death: dull unconsciousness is all we see. Whether this be so,--how and when the spirit wakes to life again,--this is what all wish to know, and what never can be known until it is experienced.

Language makes infinite use of finite media.

Even sleep is characteristic. How beautiful are children in their lovely innocence! how angel-like their blooming features! and how painful and anxious is the sleep of the guilty!

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

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.