If you want me to believe in God, you must make me touch him.
Superstition is more injurious to God than atheism.
Oh! how near are genius and madness! Men imprison them and chain them, or raise statues to them.
Distance is a great promoter of admiration.
There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating every Christian on earth, while the Christians are scarcely more tolerant on their side.
To describe women, the pen should be dipped in the humid colors of the rainbow, and the paper dried with the dust gathered from the wings of a butterfly.