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

Illness strikes men when they are exposed to change.

Unless a variety of opinions are laid before us, we have no opportunity of selection, but are bound of necessity to adopt the particular view which may have been brought forward.

Historia (Inquiry); so that the actions of of people will not fade with time.

Very few things happen at the right time, and the rest do not happen at all. The conscientious historian will correct these defects.

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.

A general curiosity about the unknown sparked by the multicultural milieu in which I spent my formative years. There was a lot of unknown back then, too. I dare say it was easier to be an explorer then.