Forget not that the man who cannot enjoy his own natural gifts in silence, and find his reward in the exercise of them, will generally find himself badly off.

Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness.

After fifteen minutes nobody looks at a rainbow.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

Hatred is partial, but love is still more so.

However often we turn to it [the Koran] at first disgusting us each time afresh, it soon attracts, astounds, and in the end enforces our reverence. . . . Its style, in accordance with its contents and aim is stern, grand, terrible - ever and anon truly sublime - Thus this book will go on exercising through all ages a most potent influence.

One cannot always be a hero, but one can always be a man.