The most effective coquetry is innocence.

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

If greatness of purpose, smallness of means, and astonishing results are the three criteria of a human genius, who could dare compare any great man in history with Muhammad?

Fiction is the microscope of truth.

There is a name hidden in the shadow of my soul, where I read it night and day and no other eye sees it.

Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.