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

Friendship, sweet-resting place of the soul, the gloaming wherein our hearts find peace.

The more I see of the representatives of the people, the more I admire my dogs.

Sometimes, only one person is missing, and the whole world seems depopulated.

Enthusiasm is the intoxication of earnestness.

Before this century shall run out, journalism will be the whole press. Mankind will write their book day by day, hour by hour, page by page. Thought will spread abroad with the rapidity of light--instantly conceived, instantly written, instantly understood at the extremities of the earth.

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?