text: The Sanskrit language , whatever be its antiquity , is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek , more copious than the Latin , and more exquisitely refined than either , yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity , both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar , than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong , indeed , that no philologer could examine them all three , without believing them to have sprung from some common source , which , perhaps , no longer exists .
simplified: Sir William Jones said , `` The Sanskrit language , whatever be its antiquity , is of a wonderful structure ; more perfect than the Greek , more copious than the Latin , and more exquisitely refined than either , yet bearing to both of them a stronger affinity , both in the roots of verbs and in the forms of grammar , than could possibly have been produced by accident ; so strong , indeed , that no philologer could examine them all three , without believing them to have sprung from some common source , which , perhaps , no longer exists . ''