Far better it is to have a stout heart always and suffer one's share of evils, than to be ever fearing what may happen.

Whatever comes from God is impossible for a man to turn back.

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

As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning. It's impossible for someone who is human to have all good things together, just as there is no single country able to provide all good things for itself.

It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.

It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.

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