James Mackintosh

"Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations."

"The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity."

"The frivolous work of polished idleness."

"Disciplined inaction."

"Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself."

"Tiffin, what"

"The theory (propounded by Vedanta) [is] refined, abstruse, ingenious and beautiful."

"It is right to be content with what we have, but never with what we are."