We must be courteous to a man as we are to a picture, which we are willing to give the advantage of a good light.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

Yet time and space are but inverse measures of the force of the soul. The spirit sports with time.

Every sentence spoken by Napoleon, and every line of his writing, deserves reading, as it is the sense of France.

What is life but the angle of vision? A man is measured by the angle at which he looks at objects. What is life but what a man is thinking of all day? This is his fate and his employer. Knowing is the measure of the man. By how much we know, so we are.

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.