The worst pain a man can have is to know much and be impotent to act.

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

It [Egypt] has more wonders in it than any other country in the world and provides more works that defy description than any otherplace.

The secret of success is that it is not the absence of failure, but the absence of envy.

Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.

The period of a [Persian] boy's education is between the ages of five and twenty, and he is taught three things only: to ride, to use the bow, and to speak the truth.

Not snow, no, nor rain, nor heat, nor night keeps them from accomplishing their appointed courses with all speed.