In the field of controversy I always pity the moderate party, who stand on the open middle ground exposed to the fire of both sides.

According to the faith and mercy of his Christian enemies, [Chosroes] sunk without hope into a still deeper abyss [Hell]; and it will not be denied, that tyrants of every age and sect are the best entitled to such infernal abodes.

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language.

As long as mankind shall continue to bestow more liberal applause on their destroyers than on their benefactors, the thirst of military glory will ever be the vice of the most exalted characters.

Imam Hussain's sacrifice is for all groups and communities, an example of the path of rightousness.

The subject, however various and important, has already been so frequently, so ably, and so successfully discussed, that it is now grown familiar to the reader, and difficult to the writer.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers; the second, more personal and important, from himself.