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.

Virginity is the poetry, not the reality, of life.

Private passions tire and exhaust themselves, public ones never.

If God is thy father, human beings are thy brothers and sisters.

Love is the enchanted dawn of every heart.

Man is God by his faculty for thought.

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