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

Wherever we direct our attention to Hindu literature the notion of infinity presents itself.

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.

[I]n every part of this eastern world, from Pekin to Damascus, the popular teachers of moral wisdom have immemorially been poets.

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

The only road to the highest stations in this country is that of the law.

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