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

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

Cruelty to dumb animals is one of the distinguishing vices of low and base minds. Wherever it is found, it is a certain mark of ignorance and meanness; a mark which all the external advantages of wealth, splendour, and nobility, cannot obliterate. It is consistent neither with learning nor true civility.

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

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

In the whisper of the leaves appears an interchange of love.

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