The highest eulogy which can be pronounced on the revolution of 1688 is this, that it was our last revolution. Several generations have now passed aw… - Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay

The measure of a man's real character is what he will do if he knew he would never be found out.

No Hindoo, who has received an English education, ever remains sincerely attached to his religion. Some continue to profess it as matter of policy; but many profess themselves pure Deists, and some embrace Christianity. It is my firm belief that, if our plans of education are followed up, there will not be a single idolator among the respectable classes in Bengal thirty years hence. And this will be effected without any efforts to proselytise; without the smallest interference with religious liberty; merely by the natural operation of knowledge and reflection. I heartily rejoice in the prospect.'"

I would not give up the keys to the granary, because I know that, by doing so, I should turn scarcity into a famine.