Of all possessions a friend is the most precious.

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

Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.

History is marked by alternating movements across the imaginary line that separates East from West in Eurasia.

If anyone, no matter who, were given the opportunity of choosing from amongst all the nations in the world the set of beliefs which he thought best, he would inevitably—after careful considerations of their relative merits—choose that of his own country. Everyone without exception believes his own native customs, and the religion he was brought up in, to be the best.

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.

It is a law of nature that fainthearted men should be the fruit of luxurious countries, for we never find that the same soil produces delicacies and heroes.