India is an abstraction.... India is no more a political personality than Europe. India is a geographical term. It is no more a un...ited nation than the Equator.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The prosecution of [Warren] Hastings, though he should escape at last, must have good effect. It will alarm the servants of the Co...mpany in India, that they may not always plunder with impunity, but that there may be a retrospect; and it will show them that even bribes of diamonds to the Crown may not secure them from prosecution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And though that other question that I asked and can't Remember any more is going to move still farther upward, casting... Its shadow enormously over where I remain, I can't see it. Enough to know that I shall have answered for myself soon, Be led away for further questioning and later returned To the amazingly quiet room in which all my life has been spent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Thought once awakened does not again slumber; unfolds itself into a System of Thought; grows, in man after man, generation after g...eneration,--till its full stature is reached, and such System of Thought can grow no farther, but must give place to another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every artist knows that there is no such thing as "freedom" in art. The first thing an artist does when he begins a new work is to... lay down the barriers and limitations; he decides upon a certain composition, a certain key, a certain relation of creatures or objects to each other. He is never free, and the more splendid his imagination, the more intense his feeling, the farther he goes from general truth and general emotion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And for the citation of so many authors, 'tis the easiest thing in nature. Find out one of these books with an alphabetical index,... and without any farther ceremony, remove it verbatim into your own ... there are fools enough to be thus drawn into an opinion of the work; at least, such a flourishing train of attendants will give your book a fashionable air, and recommend it for sale.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Second-rate knowledge, and middling talents, carry a man farther at courts, and in the busy part of the world, than superior knowl...edge and shining parts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »