Never neglect an opportunity for improvement.

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

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

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

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 have carefully and regularly perused the Holy Scriptures, and am of opinion that the volume contains more sublimity, purer morality, more important history, and finer strains of eloquence, than can be collected from all other books, in whatever language they may have been written.

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