Now we are to behold a literature so full of all qualities of loveliness and purity, such new regions of high thought and feeling … that to the dwellers in past days it should have seemed rather the production of angels than of men.

—Madras Christian Instructor and Missionary Record (1844), 2 (4): 195

We are not afraid of what we do see of British power, but of what we do not see.

—Tipu Sultan’s minister, quoted in Parliamentary Papers, 1852–53, 29:42