Within yourself deliverance must be searched for, because each man makes his own prison.

He was appointed CSI on the occasion of the proclamation of Queen Victoria as Empress of India in 1877 and was knighted in 1888 (as KCIE). The literary task which he set before him was the interpretation in English verse of the life and philosophy of the East. He was educated at King's School Rochester; King's College London; and University College Oxford where he won the Newdigate prize for poetry in 1852.