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

Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

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

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

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

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

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.