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

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

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.

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.

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

An experiment in nature, like a text in the Bible, is capable of different interpretations, according to the preconceptions of the interpreter.