I give priority to up-bringing over education because the ultimate goal of up-bringing is morals, and we have a more urgent need for morals than for knowledge.

Training the will in trivial and grave matters increases its strength and flexibility, and enables man to constantly strive and persevere.

My American walking shoes are new, and my Oriental eyes are old.

True knowledge is power; but in order to feel at home with it, we must be constitutionally qualified. And if we are not, it is likely to give the soul such a twist as to deform it forever.

We can not understand each other, if every time we venture out we stick the feather of cocksureness in our caps. No, we can never wholly understand each other, and rise to the level of mutual esteem at least, if we do not invest in that fellow feeling that triumphs over class and creed and race and color.

... And if Europe gives Arabia a railway, Arabia gives Europe an idea - which I think balances the account.

Freedom of the Spirit is the cornerstone of all freedom.