Whatever you can do or dream, begin it.

When you take a man as he is, you make him worse. When you take a man as he can be, you make him better.

We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.

The world cannot do without great men, but great men are very troublesome to the world.

We are not all equal, nor can we be so.

One never goes so far as when one doesn't know where one is going.

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.