The perpetual stream of human nature is formed into ever-changing shallows, eddies, falls and pools by the land over which it passes. Perhaps the only real value of history lies in considering this endlessly varied play between the essence and the accidents.

An audience of twenty thousand, sitting on its hands, could not have produced such an echoing silence.

Money buys many things... The best of which is freedom.

We Persians have a saying that one should deliberate serious matters first drunk, then sober.

Longing performs all things

By her shining and her power he knew her.

death was the price of life.