I am no Hindu, but I hold the doctrine of the Hindus concerning a future state (rebirth) to be incomparably more rational, more pious, and more likely to deter men from vice than the horrid opinions inculcated by Christians on punishments without end.

Of all the things that it is possible to donate, to donate your own body is infinitely more worthwhile.

Live as if you already are what you wish to become.

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

My opinion is, that power should always be distrusted, in whatever hands it is placed.

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,Whose accents flow with artless ease,Like orient pearls at random strung.

The Sanskrit language, whatever be its antiquity is of wonderful structure, more perfect than the Greek, more copious than the Latin and more exquisitely refined than either.