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.

Letter written to his father in 1836. Quoted in Indian Church History Review (December 1973), p. 187. Partially quoted in S. R. Goel, History of Hindu-Christian Encounters, AD 304 to 1996 (2016), ch. 13. Quoted from Koenraad Elst, The Argumentative Hindu (2012), ch. 3