But your isolation must not be mechanical, but spiritual, that is, must be elevation.

The borrower runs in his own debt.

Our day of dependence, our long apprenticeship to the learning of other lands, draws to a close. The millions, that around us arerushing into life, cannot always be fed on the sere remains of foreign harvests.

Had I but written as many odes in praise of Muhammad and Ali as I have composed for King Mahmud, they would have showered a hundred blessings on me.

Happy is he who looks only into his work to know if it will succeed, never into the times or the public opinion; and who writes from the love of imparting certain thoughts and not from the necessity of sale - who writes always to the unknown friend.

What you persist in doing gets easier. The task hasn't changed, but your ability to do it has increased.

True wit never made us laugh.