Egypt is the gift of the Nile.

All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.

If a man insisted always on being serious, and never allowed himself a bit of fun and relaxation, he would go mad or become unstable without knowing it.

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own

The Persians are very fond of wine ... It is also their general practice to deliberate upon affairs of weight when they are drunk; and then in the morning, when they are sober, the decision to which they came the night before is put before them by the master of the house in which it was made; and if it is then approved they act on it; if not, they set it aside. Sometimes, however, they are sober at their first deliberations, but in this case they always reconsider the matter under the influence of wine.

The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

Haste in every business brings failures.