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.

Civil wars leave nothing but tombs.

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

Eternity is so certain and so terrible that a thousand lives would not suffice to prepare for it.

Kindness is virtue itself.

The reason that women are so much more sociable than men is because they act more from the heart than the intellect.

All our tastes are but reminiscences.