"Without weighty grounds, we must not push aside unanimous Indian tradition; else one practises scepticism, not criticism."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"We arrived at five great Epochs of the Earthly Life of the Human Race, which are the only possible Epochs thereof, and thoroughly exhaust the whole of this Life:–First, That in which human affairs are…"

"A teacher who is attempting to teach without inspiring the pupil with a desire to learn is hammering cold iron."

"Every animal possesses something which distinguishes it from all other animals; and this is what I understand by personal identity, or rather the identical self. This in every animal is perfectly dist…"