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

To an active mind, indolence is more painful than labor.

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom.

Corruption, the most infallible symptom of constitutional liberty.

History, which undertakes to record the transactions of the past, for the instruction of future ages, would ill deserve that honourable office if she condescended to plead the cause of tyrants, or to justify the maxims of persecution.

The value of money has been settled by general consent to express our wants and our property, as letters were invented to express our ideas; and both these institutions, by giving a more active energy to the powers and passions of human nature, have contributed to multiply the objects they were designed to represent.

Every person has two educations, one which he receives from others, and one, more important, which he gives to himself.