Music is the literature of the heart; it commences where speech ends.

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

Ink is the transcript of thought.

There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.

Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.

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? The most famous men created arms, laws, and empires only. They founded, if anything at all, no more than material powers which often crumbled away before their eyes. This man moved not only armies, legislations, empires, peoples, dynasties, but millions of men in one-third of the then inhabited world; and more than that, he moved the altars, the gods, the religions, the ideas, the beliefs and the souls.

Inspiration is solitary, never consecutive.