Luck Relies On Chance, Labor On Character.

I Confess That For Fifteen Years My Efforts In Education, And My Hopes Of Success In Establishing A System Of National Education, Have Always Been Associated With The Idea Of Coupling The Education Of This Country With The Religious Communities Which Exist.

On The Contrary, All The World Would Point To That Nation As Violating A Treaty, By Going To War With A Country With Whom They Had Engaged To Enter Into Arbitration.

I Have Been Particularly Struck With The Overwhelming Evidence Which Is Given As To The Fitness Of The Natives Of India For High Offices And Employments.

This Great Oracle Of The East India Company Himself Admits That, If There Is No Power Vested In The Court Of Directors But That Of The Patronage, There Is Really No Government Vested In Them At All.

I Am Not Accustomed To Pay Fulsome Compliments To The English, By Telling Them That They Are Superior To All The World; But This I Can Say, That They Do Not Deserve The Name Of Cowards.